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The Second Baptist Church of Atlanta. 
Dedicated October, 1893, by Johx A. Broadus, D. D. 



SEMI-CENTENNIAL 
HISTORY 

OF THE 

Second Baptist 
Church 

of Atlanta^ Georgia 

NOVEMBER 27-30 
1904 



Edited and Arranged by 
*M$ Z/. Brit tain 




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FOREWORD 



THE Second Baptist Church of Atlanta pre- 
sents a remarkable record of achievement 
during the fifty years of her life. She may 
rightfully be called a " Mother in Israel, " for 
as a direct result of the zeal and liberality of her mem- 
bers she has founded and fostered eight mission stations 
until they have become self-supporting churches. These 
eight with the founder have a Baptist membership of 
5,242, an attendance upon their Sunday-Schools of 
4,432, own property valued at $261,500, and last year con- 
tributed for religious purposes more than $89,000. 
^ In benevolence no less than in missionary zeal the 
Second Church has been a leader. Since the war she has 
contributed more than half a million dollars to the various 
causes fostered by the denomination in the State and 
South, and in a single year one of her members, Gov- 
ernor Joseph K, Brown, gave $101,000 to two educa- 
tional institutions. 

<I The personnel of her congregations has also been 
notable. Not only has she had in constant attendance 
Governors, Mayors, Chief Justices, and other laymen 
distinguished in public life, but such ministers as H. H. 
Tucker, David Shaver, Shaler G. Hillyer, I. T. Tichenor 
and F. H. Kerfoot, have added the charm of their cul- 
tured grace to her services. 

<I The history of such a church possesses a more than 
passing interest to the denomination and by formal 
action the writer was appointed to edit and arrange for 
publication the addresses and letters presented on the 
occasion of the Semi-Centennial celebration, Nov- 
ember 27-30, 1904, This book prepared in the intervals 
of business cares and responsibilities is the result, and 
with mingled feelings of pride in the record shown and 
apology for its editorial short-comings, it is presented to 
the Baptists of our State and country. 

M. L. Brittain. 

Atlanta^ Ga., December 25, IQ04. 





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S€COtf 0 •BAPTJST* CHVRCH « 
ATLANTA GA NOV* 27f& • !904£ 
BY- WILLIAfA -HVRD-H! LLVCR • • 

i. 

N ANCIENT sequence moves the certain ronnd 

Of seasons, with their miracles of change- 
Autumn and winter, spring and summer-time. 

And each recurring cycle, by some strange 
Harmonic impulse, as when rhyme with rhyme 
Stirs the remotest provinces of sound, 
Or when the plangent cadence of a song 

Wakens old multitudes of smiles and tears, 
Thrills with vast vibrant memories, along 

The spiral of the years. 



II. 



Once more we stand where met that earnest few 

That band of faithful gospellers, who came 
To plant on this loved spot a citadel 

Of God. Steadfastly trusting in His name, 
Foundation deep they laid, and builded well- 
Buttressed by faith and arched with doctrines 
true. 

Twainscore and ten the autumns that have rolled 
Athwart the heavens, but unwavering, 

Here humble servants of the Master hold 
An outpost for their King. 



III. 



No relic of monastic holiness, 

No dust of venerated saints had they 

Who here assembled the Lord's death to show, 
To learn His scriptures and to watch and pray. 

Naught cared they for weird chants and taper- 
glow; 

Nor monk nor bishop came their church to bless. 
Only upon the Word they stood— "For where 
(Thus spake the Light that shone from Bethle- 
hem) 

"But two or three meet in my name, lo, there 
Am I in the midst of them.*' 






IV. 

We unto whom the sacred trust descends 

Of keeping whole that which our fathers 
reared— 
Not lofty-towered edifice alone, 

Nor pulpit by sweet memories endeared— 
But that house which outlasteth wood or stone— 
We whom the risen Lord at first called "Friends," 
Then "Son and Daughter," "Brother, Sister,"— we 
Whom Christ hath chosen, shall we fear or 
fail, 

When evil flourisheth, and cowards flee, 
And selfish cares assail? 

V. 

Front we an age of mingled flame and ice- 
Fire of red passion and grim frost of doubt. 
Dogmas and creeds are crumbling fast within, 

The Masque of Death is rioting without, 
And daily the unceasing craft of Sin 
Plants in the world an hideous device 
Of falsehood. Yea, alarmed by shapes uncouth, 

Some timid souls are vexed with pious grief 
At what they deem the wreck of faith and truth, 
The passing of belief. 

VI. 

But not for us these fears— let us strike deep 
Below the shifting sands of form and sense, 

And in the changeless Gift of God to man 
Find anchorage of solid permanence. 

He loved the world ere yet the world began, 

Whom He hath called His own, them will He 
keep: 

Nor was the sun by Babel's clamor stirred 
More slightly in his course from east to west 

Than by Opinion's babble is God's Word, 
In Christ made manifest. 

VII. 

Not profitless disputes of line and text, 

Aleph and Beth of mouldy manuscript, 
Nor garments whitened by constructive creed, 

But vestures in the blood of Jesus dipt. 
Religion? It is Christ— naught else we need! 
And though, at some deep mystery perpleact, 
We oft may long to scan with mortal eyes 

Some answers to the riddle, heaven-sent, 
Perchance Truth is but hampered by the guise 

Of formal argument. 





VIII. 

Him whom we have "believed in we do know, 
And vain the logic that wonld seek to raise 
Anght betwixt ns and Christ, nor need we fear 

When falls the ontworn sheaf of elder days. 
The blade, the ear, the full corn in the ear- 
Dawn before daylight— it was ever so. 
Still through the human filters the divine, 
And though suspected storms the veil may 
rend, 

Yet the pure splendors of the Godhead shine 
But clearer in the end. 

IX. 

For us relentless conflict with the foes 

That bar the kingdom of Immanuel— 
The spirit-blinding powers of the air. 

For us the story that the lilies tell, 
For us the daily strength of secret prayer. 
And, often as these carven portals close 
To shut from tired ears the earthly strife, 

Be this the firm petition of our band- 
That ever as of old, O Lord of Life, 

Thou in our midst may stand. 

X. 



Thou in our midst, and when this church shall 
round 

The greater cycle of the hundredth year,-- 
When all who tread these aisles to-day are dust, 

Save that an honored remnant may appear, 
Grant that some faithful souls who toil and trust 
Here gathering for worship may be found: 
Brave, wise and gentle, steadfast to endure, 

Not by the temptings of the world enticed; 
Walking as those who with calm eye and pure 

Behold the risen Christ. 





SEMI-CENTENNIAL PROGRAMME. 



Sunday Morning, November 27. — Sermon by Rev. 
Junius W. Millard of Baltimore. 

Sunday Afternoon, November 27. — "Reception to the 
Sunday-scbools of the Jones Avenue, Central, Temple, 
Woodward Avenue, Glenn Street, Capitol Avenue, Im- 
manuel and McDonald Baptist Churches. Sermon by 
Dr. L. G. Broughton. 

Sunday Evening. — At Home to the Mother Church. 
Service under direction of the First Baptist Church; 
Jno. M. Green, chairman of Board of Deacons, presiding. 
Sermon by Dr. W. W. Landrum. Music directed by 
Mr. John O'Donnelly. 

Monday Evening, November 28. — Missionary review 
of fifty years, B. D. Gray presiding. The Woman's 
Missionary and Benevolent Society, the Young Men's 
Missionary Society, the Mission Workers, the Young 
Ladies' Society, the Christian Lights Band, the Junior 
Mission Workers and the Baptist Young People's Union 
render an account of their stewardship to the Church. 

Tuesday Evening, November 29. — Memorial service. 
"The Loved and Lost Awhile." Bloll Call of the Dead. 
Addresses by General C. A. Evans, Rev. T. P. Cleve- 
land and Dr. A. T. Spalding. 

Wednesday, November 30. — At Home to the Daughters 
of the Second Baptist Church. Reports from Jones 
Avenue, Central, Temple, Woodward Avenue, Glenn 
Street, Capitol Avenue, Immanuel and McDonald 
Churches, which date their existence to the missionary 
labors and fostering care of the Second Baptist Church. 



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SEMI-CENTENNIAL COMMITTEES. 



General Committee in Charge. — J. T. Pendleton, A. 0. 
Briscoe, Henry Hillyer, Walker Dunson and John 
E. AVhite. 

History of the Woman's Missionary and Benevolent So- 
ciety. — Mrs. George Westmoreland, Miss Abhie Cal- 
laway, Mrs. E. L. Connally. 

History of the Young Men's Society. — Eldridge Lump- 
kin and T. J. Day. 

History of the Mission Workers. — Mrs. W. E. Campbell, 
Miss Cora Brown and Mrs. Walker Dumon. 

History of the Young Ladies' Society. — Miss Augusta 
Garrett, Mrs. Mary Connally Spalding, Miss Eloise 
Pittman. 

History of the Christian Lights Band. — Mrs. Harvey 
Hatcher and Miss Ninetta Day. 

History of the Junior Mission Workers. — Mrs. Frank 
Coker, Misses Nellie Fuller and Edith Dunson. 

History of the Baptist Young People's Union. — Miss 
Mary Bobert. 

The Church and Her Pastors. — John T. Pendleton, A. D. 
Adair, John H. James. 

Deceased Members. — Henry Hillyer and S. P. Richards. 

The Contribution of the Second Baptist Church to 
Georgia and the World. — M. L. Brittain, George 
Hillyer, W. D. Ellis, George Westmoreland, Julian 
Field and John D. Wester. 

The Reception and Refreshments. — Mrs. W. F. Manry, 
Mrs. J. E. Singer, Mrs. Porter King, Miss Eugenia 
Clark, Mrs. Close, Miss Cora Brown. 



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THE SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH AND ITS 
PASTORS. 



By John T. Pendleton. 



The Second Baptist Church of Atlanta, Georgia, wa3 
constituted on September 1, 1854. The constituent mem- 
bers were nineteen in number and had been previously 
dismissed from the First Baptist Church for the purpose 
of constituting a new church. ]STone of the nineteen were 
possessed of any considerable wealth. They were, how- 
ever, consecrated to the work, and purchased the lot where 
the church building now stands, and with such assistance 
as they were able to secure, built thereon a house of wor- 
ship at a cost of $14,000. 

The history of a church is a history of its pastors. 
There is one man behind every great work; co-laborers 
there may be, but always one master builder. In the 
Baptist Church this man ought to be, and generally is, 
the pastor. All honor to every true, noble-hearted bishop 
of a Baptist church! The growth and usefulness of the 
Second Baptist Church would indicate that its pastors 
had magnified their office, and such is the fact. The 
growth of the Church will be presented in detail by re- 
ports from the various departments of work. 

Kev. Charles M. Irwin was the first pastor of the 
Church. His pastorate was less than a year. Domestic 
affliction compelled him to retire for a while from active 
labor. He lived a long and useful life, and was for many 
years connected with the work of the State Mission Board. 

Rev. T. U. Wilkes followed. His pastorate continued 
until August, 1858. The Church building was completed 
and dedicated during this time. The dedication sermon 
was preached by Bev. N. M. Crawford, D.D. Brother 
Wilkes was an earnest, evangelical minister. He removed 
to Arkansas and died in 1866. 

Rev. Jno. T. Clarke became pastor on November 4, 



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1858, and served in that capacity three years. Brother 
Clarke had a great leaning to the law, and after his 
resignation was admitted to the bar. He was a scholarly 
man, and became a great jurist. He served the State 
many years as judge of the Superior Courts of the Pa- 
taula Circuit, and if it had not been for his untimely 
death in a railroad accident, would have, beyond doubt, 
been elevated to the bench of the Supreme Court. 

Eev. William T. Brantley, D.D., was our pastor 
from 1861 to 1871, with the exception of a short interval, 
during which the membership was scattered on account 
of the War. The Church was very prosperous under his 
pastorate. The membership was greatly increased, and 
the church building was enlarged and thoroughly repaired 
at a cost of $20,000. The Third, Fourth and Fifth Bap- 
tist Churches were organized. Dr. Brantley bore the 
name of an honored father, who was a "Prince in Israel." 
Elegant in manner, handsome in appearance, eloquent in 
speech, he was a charming man and a fine type of the 
Southern gentleman. He resigned in 1871 to accept the 
pastorate of the Seventh Baptist Church of Baltimore, 
Md., where he labored most acceptably until his death. 

Eev. A. T. Spalding, D.D., was also pastor of the 
Church for ten years, from 1871 to 1881. During this 
time the Church enjoyed a gracious season of revival. 
The influence of these services extended over the entire 
city, and they were known as the "James Hall Meetings." 
The lamented John T. McGuire, superintendent of the 
Sunday-school, was an efficient worker in this revival. 

The mission stations were established at this time, out 
of which grew the Capitol Avenue, the Glenn Street and 
the Temple Baptist Churches. Dr. Spalding was an in- 
teresting and fluent speaker, and the congregations were 
large under his ministry. He resigned to accept the pas- 
torate of the large and influential First Baptist Church of 
Galveston, Texas. !He has returned to this city very much 



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to the delight of his friends, who hope that he will spend 
the remaining years of his life in our midst. 

Rev. Henry McDonald, D.D., was pastor of the 
Ohurch from February, 1882, to February, 1900, being 
the longest pastorate that the Ohurch has enjoyed. Dur- 
ing this time our present handsome church building was 
erected, which, with its furniture and organ, cost $114,000. 
About $90,000 of this amount was paid during Dr. Mc- 
Donald's pastorate. The dedication sermon was preached 
by the honored and beloved Dr. John A. Broadus, in 
October, 1893. His subject was "Fellowship of Labor." 
His sermon was greatly enjoyed by a large congregation 
and elicited from a good critic the compliment "Only the 
great can be simple." The Church raised $8,000, and pur- 
chased a pastorate for Dr. McDonald. Many gracious 
revivals and largely increased membership and contribu- 
tions were the result of his ministry. He was the first 
pastor in Georgia to respond to the appeal of the South- 
ern Baptist Convention for the systematic collection of 
mission funds, and inaugurated the plan that secured 
from $2,500 to $3,000 annually for missions, as against 
$600 — $200 to each of the three boards — the amount 
previously contributed for several years. The Church 
reached its high-water mark of usefulness under his min- 
istry. Dr. McDonald's struggles to break away from an 
ancestral faith, and the tender pathos of his ministry, 
made him a great favorite in the Southern Baptist Conven- 
tion. In life he was enshrined in the hearts of our peo- 
ple, and in death was embalmed with their love. 

Rev. John E. White, D.D., our present pastor, will 
soon have been with us four years. In that time the 
Church has paid its entire bonded indebtedness amount- 
ing to $35,000, has had four very gracious revivals, has 
added 500 to the membership, has bought one mission, 
church and built another, and Dr. White, by his arduous 
work and attractive preaching, has built up a large Sunday 
might congregation. It is a source of gratification to us 



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that lie is recognized by the denomination as one of our 
best preachers and most useful men. 

We have entered into the labors of those who have gone 
before; let us hope that we have received a double por- 
tion of their spirit. 



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SEMI-CENTENNIAL SERMON. 
What Mean These Stones ? 

Text: Joshua 4:21. 

BY BEV. JUNIUS W. MILIABD, BALTIMORE. 



Memorial principles underlie all monuments. They 
keep fresh before human thought some person or deed that 
is worth remembering. Utilizing this principle Christ 
Himself erected two monuments — the Lord's Supper, which 
keeps fresh before us His atoning death for the world, and 
Baptism, which keeps ever before us His glorious death and 
resurrection. 

So the Jews, just coming into their promised land, 
erected a monument by the River Jordan in the Jericho 
Valley. This monument too stood for something, and 
Joshua, at the bidding of the Lord, told the people to be 
ever ready with an answer to those who might inquire, 
"What mean these stones?" 

This fiftieth anniversary of the founding of this Church, 
as for several days the members and friends turn aside 
to commemorate this jubilee year, is itself of the nature 
of a monument and partakes of this memorial principle. 
And it were well at the very beginning of this occasion we 
should turn aside to inquire as to its meaning. "What 
mean these stones V This beautiful building, costing over 
one hundred thousand dollars; what does it stand for 
to the City of Atlanta, and to the Kingdom of God, and 
to the world ? Some things these stones should not stand 
for, for if they represent the pride of those who erected this 
building, or their self-gratulation over their achievements, 
or the spirit of ease on the part of those who are their 
heirs in spiritual things, then the curse of God be upon 
these stones, and upon those who worship here. 

"What mean these stones V They stand, first of all, as 
a witness of the reality of spiritual things, and in the 

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forefront of these is the personality of the Living God. 
This building is a call to think on God, and duty, and 
death, and the eternities, and affords an opportunity 
for the soul to fall down and worship Him who sitteth 
upon the Throne forever. 

This Church stands, also, for a ministry to the spiritual 
part of man as contrasted with the intellectual or the ma- 
terial. We have great pride in our modern world, and 
greatly boast of our civilization. The railway, telegraph, 
telephone, steamships and newspapers are welding the 
world into a common brotherhood, and the men in Atlanta 
to-morrow morning will want to know what is being done 
to-day the wide world over, in Manchuria and St. Peters- 
burg, in Paris and London. To-day life is richer than 
ever before, but is not quiet. It interests the mind but 
does not rest the soul. Never were there so much noise, 
stress and strain as there are to-day. The result is that 
many faint beneath the burden, for our modern civiliza- 
tion is very hard on the inner man. 

These stones stand for that which is a necessary com- 
plement of this modern life. Civilization for the outer 
man and for the mind, but God's evangel of peace for the 
inner man and the spirit. We face nervous prostration 
with soul elevation. As the one clouds the soul, dims the 
vision, and shuts out God, so the other allows us to see 
Him who is invisible, and to think in terms of God and 
the ages yet to come. As the one results from the pace 
that kills, set by our modern civilization, so the other comes 
from the truth which makes one free, even from nervous- 
ness and petty annoyances, which comes from the preach- 
ing of the gospel of peace. There is everywhere a general 
unsettlement, a restlessness and depression which are re- 
sulting in a slackening of energy and a lowering of ideals. 
Our boasted civilization is not bringing forth the results 
which we had hoped for, and we will in the end be driven 
back in a sure reaction to the things of the spirit. In the 
meantime, this Church, and all the churches in the land, 



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stand for the reality of that world of spirit that exists 
all about us. 

These stones stand, also, for the greatest of miracles, 
the raising of the spiritually dead. The strength of a 
church is not to be judged by the size and regularity of 
its congregations, or the social and commercial standing 
of its members. It may possess these and much more in 
the largest measure, and still lack the churchly essential 
and the churchly purpose. A church is a part of the body 
of Christ, set for the expressing of Christ's spirit and the 
accomplishment of the work. His church is most like 
Him when it is the embodiment of those qualities that 
make its members saviours of men. The test of a church 
is — Is it saving souls in order to go on saving lives \ The 
Rev. G. Campbell Morgan says that the evidences of life 
in a church are four. In a living church there will be 
growth, compassion, emotion, and union. The first of 
these only concerns us here — growth. The life-principle 
within us makes stagnation impossible, and if none are 
born again through the travailing of the church, it is dead. 

Now this Church — not the pastor alone, nor the people 
alone — this Church stands for the raising of the spiritually 
dead, the greatest possible miracle. General Booth's 
daughter told her story night after night in the city of 
Paris, only to be jeered at by the mob which crowded about 
to hear her. At last, one night, with a breaking heart, 
she came down from the platform and walked through the 
crowd until she came to a poor fallen girl who sat in 
the back seat. Taking the girl's face in her hands, she 
stooped over and kissed her, saying, "My dear sister, 
I would to God that I could love you to Jesus." It had 
been many a year since lips like those had touched that 
girl's cheek. She raised her face, staggered to her feet, 
walked down the hall, and finally fell all covered with 
tears in the front seat. She was "loved" to Jesus that 
night, and it was the personal touch that did it. 

These stones stand above all, for the lordship of Jesus 



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Christ. The earliest creed of Christendom consisted of 
two words, translated into our English tongue, "Jesu3 
is Lord" (Rom. 10:9). The first Christians not only be- 
lieved in Him as Saviour, they obeyed Him as Lord. 
His word to them was law. See what great things that 
early belief accomplished in those first days. Though 
the saints were scattered, they went everywhere preach- 
ing the Word, and in a few generations the story of the 
dying Lord of Life and Love was told to all the nations. 
It was only a little while before the new faith conquered 
the Old World. That despised company of believers 
accomplished more for their King than a like number of 
Roman soldiers ever accomplished for imperial Caesar. 

Multitudes are redeemed, we are fain to believe, who 
have, nevertheless, not yielded themselves to Jesus as Lord 
and Master. The covetous, the complainer, the selfish, 
the time-server and money-lover — these know nothing of 
the delights of a perfect trust that leans upon one's Lord, 
and leaves all to His blessed will. Oh, for enthusiasm 
in the service of the King of kings and Lord of lords ! 

And these stones stand for an opportunity for each per- 
son here to do his best work. There is a power in fellow- 
ship. Moses was unwilling to go alone to Egypt to do 
work for Jehovah, even though he was assured of the 
presence and help of God, and with a miracle wrought be- 
fore his very eyes, but when God gave him his brother 
Aaron as a helper he went. Even so, the presence of our 
brethren, associated with us in work for God and human- 
ity, strengthens our arms and cheers our hearts. This 
Church gives you the opportunity for your best work 
toward God, in the way of worship; toward self, in the 
way of development ; and toward your fellow-man, in the 
way of leading him to a knowledge of true salvation. 

This is what these stones, in part, stand for. Are you 
as an individual helping in these directions? Some of 
you are, and others of you want to. Three rules easily 
remembered, will lead you to success. 



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A. T. Spalding, D. D. 
Pastor Second Baptist Church, 1871-1881. 



Henry McDonald, D. D. 
Pastok of the Second Baptist Church, 1882-1900. 



First, put self into it. Some men are bold as lions 
in the prayer meetings who are as timid as sheep in the 
market-place. Their silence in public is caused by their 
consciousness of inward failure to be what they profess 
to be. Have you ever heard of the miracle that failed? 
We have the account in the fourth chapter cf II. Kings. 
The Shunammite woman, with her heart all bleeding be- 
cause of the death of her son, goes to the prophet Elisha 
and lays her case before him. The prophet, thinking 
to raise her son from death, sends Gehazi, his servant, to 
work the miracle by the use of the prophet's staff. But 
e/en a prophet can not raise the dead by proxy. He fell 
into the mistake of supposing that his miracle-working 
power resided in a material object — his staff. So may 
you think of these stones which compose this beautiful 
building. The miracles of grace which have been wrought 
here in times past were not because of any inherent power 
in this place where you worship. These stones have no 
power. It is personal effort which brings results. 

Put prayer into it. When Elisha gave himself to the 
work before him, he had gone a far way toward success, 
but even then the result wished for did not come until 
he had prayed and stretched himself upon the child. 
Prayer is the reaching up of the hand of faith to take 
hold upon the power of the Eternal. Prayer is the put- 
ting on to the wheels of our inert machinery the belt which 
comes from the driving wheel of the omnipotence of the 
Almighty. 

Put persistence into it. You can't do it all in a day. 
'Not one sermon, or prayer, or effort, sets the drift of 
the life, but the many sermons make truth clear, and the 
many prayers bring one close to God, and the many 
efforts crown the life with success. "What do these feeble 
Jews? Will they fortify themselves? Will they sacri- 
fice ? Will they make an end in a day ?" asked Sanballat, 
laughing at the pretensions of Nehemiah and his helpers, 
as they attempted to build up the walls of Jerusalem. 



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Does the world laugh at you, O, my Father's children, 
in your labors of love? Fortify yourselves behind the 
power and promises of God. Sacrifice your ease and com- 
fort, aye, and yourselves, too, if necessary. Do not make 
an end in a day. Build for eternity. 



Afternoon and Evening Services. 

At 3 p. m. a large audience assembled to hear Dr. L. Gr. 
Broughton, who preached an able sermon upon the mission 
of the church. In the evening the loved pastor of the First 
Baptist Church, Dr. W. W. Landrum, addressed the con- 
gregation, using as a text, "The leaves of the tree were for 
the healing of the nations." 




DR. LANDRUM. 



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THE WOMAN'S MISSIONARY AND BENEVOLENT 
SOCIETY. 



BY MISS ABBIE CALLAWAY. 



In 1872, Dr. Tupper, secretary of the Foreign Mission 
Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, made a strong 
appeal to the Baptist women of the South to come to the aid 
of their heathen sisters. They were dying, he said, and 
none but Christian women could save them. 

A feeling of joy ran through the hearts of Southern 
Baptist women that there was such a mighty work which 
they could do. There was enthusiastic response. Socie- 
ties — "Woman's Mission to Woman" — sprang up all over 
the South, and unmarried women who had been debarred 
before that time from the privilege of working in heathen 
lands pressed to the front as foreign missionaries. Lottie 
Moon, one of the most efficient workers ever sent out by 
our Board, went to China at that time. 

While this tidal wave of missionary zeal was at its 
height, the "Woman's Missionary and Benevolent Society" 
of the Church was founded — the third in point of time in 
Georgia. Dr. A. T. Spalding, the pastor, and Mr. James 
H. Lowe, a skillful organizer, were active helpers. 

The society began its work in May, 1873, and within 
four months had raised $149 towards building a house 
in China for Lottie Moon, whose support it had under- 
taken. Many of our present members recall the enthu- 
siasm of the workers in those days; how interesting the 
correspondence with Lottie Moon carried on by Miss 
Jennie Clayton, secretary; and how eager everybody was 
to be at the meetings in time to hear the letters. 

In those early days of our new Southern life, women 
knew little of business and business methods, and Dr. 
Spalding tells of Mr. Lowe's untiring efforts to get the 
society to make its reports in proper shape. Eone of 



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these reports have come down to us, but we have the con- 
stitution, one article of which says that the weekly dues 
are to be equally divided between foreign missions and 
demands within the city. 

We have, also, a list of the first officers and board of 
managers, most of whom have laid aside their earthly 
work and have gone, we trust, "to be forever with the 
Lord." They were as follows: Mrs. Lucy G. Shaver, 
president; Mrs. Dr. J. M. Johnson, first vice-president; 
Mrs. M. L. Nichols, second vice-president; Miss Jennie 
Clayton, corresponding secretary; Miss Mat tie Andrews, 
recording secretary; Miss Mary Brown, auditor. 

BOARD OF MANAGERS. 

Mrs. John H. James, Mrs. James H. Callaway, Mrs. 
Eosanna Foster, Mrs. M. B. Glenn, Mrs. M. A. White, 
Mrs. M. C. Blanchard, Mrs. M. L. Trotti, Miss Ellen Chis- 
holm, Miss Mary D. White, Miss Pope Hammock, Miss 
Addie Marsh, Miss Eugenia Clarke, Mrs. Joseph E. 
Brown, Mrs. William J. Garrett, Mrs. Eliza V. Battle, 
Mrs. D. P. Hill, Mrs. J. J. McLendon, Mrs. Fannie Far- 
rar, Mrs. Belle Abbott, Miss Emma Neal, Miss Delia Mc- 
Guire, Miss Lulu Jackson, Miss Helen Kendrick, Miss 
Maude Wilson, Miss Alice Matthews. 

Unfortunately, we have not a list of the first members, 
but Mrs. A. D. Adair was one of them. 

In its early life the society found abundant work to do 
among the poor of Atlanta. In the first ten or twelve 
years after the Civil War there was more destitution 
in the South than had ever been known before. Families 
were suddenly reduced from wealth to direst poverty. In 
the winter of 1878-79 there was so much suffering among 
the poor of the Second Church that the society provided a 
home, rent free, for its needy women and children. If 
the women were able to work, work was provided for them ; 
if not, they were cared for without charge. At one time 
a widow with eight children were in this home. After 
an existence of two years the home was discontinued. 

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The funds of the society are raised now by a yearly 
individual assessment of $1.00 for missions, by monthly 
dues of ten cents for benevolence, and by voluntary con- 
tributions. Some of the members pay their subscriptions 
for missions through the society; others directly through 
the Church. The monthly collections for the poor on 
communion days are put into the hands of the women 
for distribution. In 1879, the society raised and ex- 
pended $833.50; in 1880, $1,182.00; in 1881, $1,560.00; 
from 1885 to 1904, $25,787.96. 

The funds are divided among many objects — foreign, 
home, State, city missions, aged ministers, ministerial 
education, missionary boxes, benevolence, church exten- 
sion, Orphans' Home, Travellers' Aid. j 

About four years ago a young man of North Carolina 
offered himself to the Foreign Board as missionary to 
China. The board longed to send him, for he was largely 
endowed intellectually, and was strong spiritually, but 
there was no money in the treasury. The young man 
and some of his fellow-students agreed to pray that money 
might be provided. Without knowing of the burning de- 
sire in the young man's heart, but with soul overflowing 
with love for missions, while the band of students was 
praying, a member of this society asked Dr. Willingham 
to find a young man to represent her in China. Through 
prayer, the man and the opportunity met, and Mr. Owens 
is in China to-day doing glorious work. For two years, 
at an annual cost of $50 this society has maintained a 
native helper in his work. Though no longer a member 
of this Church, Mrs. Ashburne still supports her messen- 
ger in China. 

The women have sometimes been appalled at the large- 
ness of pecuniary demands made upon the society. Our 
pastor, Dr. White, asked, year before last, for $500 towards 
the sinking fund. At first there was a weak and hesita- 
ting response, "We will try," but as hearts grew warm 
under his earnest words, the wished-f or reply came boldly : 



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"We can, we will." Five hundred was raised and doubled. 

During the thirty-one years of its history the society 
has had thirteen presidents : Mrs. D. Shaver, Mrs. Hines, 
Mrs. Dr. Johnson, Mrs. M. L. Baird, Mrs. Elmon, 
Mrs. Sidney Root, Mrs. Jno. 3>. Cunningham, Mrs. A. 
D. Adair, Mrs. Albert Cox, Mrs. E. L. Connally, Mrs. 
George McCarty and Mrs. George Westmoreland, the pres- 
ent chairman. These presidents have always had the 
co-operation of a noble and harmonious membership. We 
have had the same treasurer for nineteen years — Mrs. A. 
J. Moore, who is unsurpassed in accuracy, patience and 
faithfulness. 

In the course of these long years many of the best and 
loveliest have left us and are now in our Father's house. 
We are not forgetful of them; but, with faces turned 
homeward, look with longing eyes toward the shining 
company. 

OFFICERS FOE PRESENT TEAS I 

Mrs. George Westmoreland .... President. 

Mrs. John E. White Vice-president. 

Mrs. Julian Field Secretary. 

Mrs. A. J. Moore .... Treasurer Mission Fund. 
Mrs. C. H. Swift . . . Treasurer Benevolent Fund. 



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HISTORY OF THE YOUNG MEN'S MISSIONARY 
SOCIETY, SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH. 



BY T. J. DAY. 



In the winter of 1879, the young men of the Second 
Baptist Church, having their zeal greatly revived by a 
series of meetings, met together for the special purpose of 
developing Christian character and organized the Young 
Men's Missionary Society. Among those who were the 
charter members and movers in the organization were E. 
S. Lumpkin, T. J. Day, Dr. H. G. Hutchinson, A. C. 
Briscoe, Henry Hillyer, E. C. Spalding, W. A. Johnson, 
W. A. Richards, Z. T.Cody, S. C. Callaway, W. A. 
Parker, W. B. McGarity, E. Gillespie, W. H. S. Dorsey, 
E. A. Brown, Will T. Spalding, J. D. McCarty, F. M. 
Catlett and Julian Field. 

At the first meeting a committee was appointed to draft 
suitable constitution and by-laws. This committee was 
composed of Dr. H. G. Hutchinson, Elijah A. Brown, 
Eugene C. Spalding and E. S. Lumpkin. Their report 
was adopted at the next meeting, and thereupon the fol- 
lowing officers were elected : T. J. Day, president ; E. C. 
Spalding, vice-president; W. A. Richards, secretary, and 
W. A. Johnson, treasurer. 

The method adopted to carry on the work was by com- 
mittees, and three were appointed, viz., Missionary, De- 
votional, and Tract. These three branches of work have 
been kept prominently before the young men to the present 
time. 

Immediately after the organization of the society, 
weekly prayer meetings were instituted for young men 
only, to the great spiritual benefit and pleasure of those 
present. They have proven to be the foundation and life 
of the society. 

In the spring of 1880 it was determined to organize a 



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mission station somewhere in the southern portion of the 
city. Thereupon a committee was appointed, composed 
of E. S. Lumpkin, Z. T. Cody and W. H. S. Dorsey, to 
seek a suitable location for its establishment. The com- 
mittee reported in favor of locating at, or near the corner 
of Capitol avenue, then McDonough, and Crumley street, 
and upon investigation, it was found that the Church 
owned a lot on Richardson street, formerly occupied by 
the Olive Branch Mission. This was organized and con- 
ducted by Deacon Callaway and others, but had long since 
been discontinued. The Church having given consent for 
the society to use this lot, the young men raised by sub- 
scription about $350, with which they built a house in 
which the present Capitol Avenue Mission Sunday-school 
was organized and conducted up to the time it was moved 
to the present location. 

Mr. Z. T. Cody, now a prominent Baptist minister in 
the State of South Carolina, was elected the first super- 
intendent, Mr. E. S. Lumpkin, secretary, an efficient 
corps of teachers was secured, and the school started off 
with bright prospects. Preaching and prayer-meeting 
services were also instituted and conducted by ministers 
when they could be secured, but principally by the young 
men. The superintendents have been Z. T. Cody, T. J. 
Day, Jas. F. Kempton, W. L. Woodson, E. S. Lumpkin, 
W. W. Orr and W. W. Gaines. This mission was sus- 
tained with vigor and determination, and finding after 
nine years that a permanent work could not be established 
there, it was determined to secure a better location. To 
this end a lot was bought at the corner of Capitol and 
Georgia avenues at a cost of $2,000, the money being 
raised partly by subscription by the young men, and the 
remainder paid by the Church out of the mission fund. 
About $600 was raised by subscription with which to build 
a house, and immediately upon its completion, W. W. Orr 
was elected superintendent. 

The work during all these years has been highly suc- 



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John E. White, D. D. 
The Pastok of the Second Baptist Church. 




The Old Second Baptist Church. 
Torn Down in 1890 to Make Way for the Present Building. 



cessful, and the Church extended an arm for the purpose 
of receiving members. Preachers R. A. Sublett, W. B. 
McGarrity, E. Pendleton Jones, A. T. Spalding and 1ST. B. 
O'Kelly have officiated. 

The young men finding their work prospering, deter- 
mined to organize a new mission station, and accordingly, 
in the spring of 1885, a committee was appointed with 
instructions to seek a location near the East Tennessee, 
Virginia & Georgia Railroad Shops. The committee was 
composed of T. J. Day, A. C. Briscoe and W. A. Johnson. 
Upon the adoption of their report, a small house was 
secured at a small rental and the Sunday-school was or- 
ganized with a large attendance. W. A. Johnson 
was elected first superintendent. The Sunday-school 
rapidly increased in attendance, preaching and prayer- 
meeting services were instituted and conducted mainly by 
the young men. At that time the community was thinly 
settled, there being no sidewalks or streets south of Rich- 
ardson street, and teachers had to be carried in an omni- 
bus from the home Church during the winter months. 
Very soon it was found necessary to have larger and bet- 
ter quarters, and to this end a lot was purchased at the 
corner of Ira and Eads streets, chiefly through the aid of 
brothers A. D. and G. B. Adair. Money was raised by 
subscription with which to build a house, and since that 
time the mission has never ceased to grow in all its de- 
partments of work. Those who have served faithfully as 
superintendents at this place are W. A. Johnson, E. S. 
Lumpkin, H. G. Hutchinson, T. J. Day, M. 0' Tyson 
and Henry Hillyer. T. J. Day served five years con- 
secutively. The Church after some years extended an 
arm at this station for the reception of members. The 
pastors who have officiated from time to time are W. B. 
Smith, E. L. Vaughn, E. M. Haygood, J. I. Oxford, J. 
A. Howard and V. C. Norcross. 

About 1890 the society again decided to enlarge its 
work by organizing a mission in the eastern section of 



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the city. This was located on East Fair street, in a small 
three-room dwelling, the partitions having been removed 
to accommodate the school. S. C. Callaway was elected 
superintendent. The school grew rapidly, and soon it was 
found necessary to secure larger quarters. The Congre- 
gationalists , church, on Berean avenue, was rented for 
the purpose, they having discontinued their work about 
this time. \J. Lawrence Turner was elected superintend- 
ent and Rev. J. S. Goodwin pastor. This was a good 
field, the school grew rapidly and all the services were 
well attended. An arm of the Church was extended and 
many members were received, both by letter and upon 
profession of faith. About one year later, this property 
having been sold, it was found necessary to move, and a 
frame building, formerly used as a cabinet shop, at the 
extreme end of Woodward avenue, was secured, which 
accommodated our school fairly well. Later it was de- 
termined to secure a site and build a church. A commit- 
tee was appointed, of which E. S. Lumpkin was chairman, 
to secure a site. After much deliberation, it was decided 
to build at the corner of East Fair and Berean avenue, 
and this work has developed into what is now known as 
the Immanuel Baptist Church. 

In 1902 another mission was organized on Woodward 
avenue, near Connally street, in a small frame house, 
which is now known as the Second Baptist Mission, and 
Dr. W. E. Campbell was elected superintendent, and 
Owens Johnson, secretary. 

In March, 1903, still another mission was organized on 
the west side of the city at the junction of Walnut and 
West Fair streets, and called the McDonald Mission, in 
honor of Rev. Henry McDonald. W. R. Callaway was 
elected superintendent, and Frank M. Dodd, assistant 
superintendent of the Sunday-school. This work was es- 
tablished in a building formerly used by the Presbyterians, 
but as they had moved, the property was bought for $1,500 
by the Second Baptist Church with the aid of the State 



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Mission Board. The house is in good condition and is 
located in a growing community. Among those who have 
labored at this place are Walker Dunson, T. J. Day, Z. 
T. Daniel, E. W. Thiot, Samuel W. Wilkinson, G. W. 
Evans, Misses Nettie and Bettie Walker, Miss Annie Mae 
Henderson, Mrs. A. M. Dodd, Mrs. Johnson, Mrs. G. W. 
Evans, W. E. Callaway, E. M. Dodd, Mrs. Stewart, Mrs. 
Walsh, Mrs. W. E. Callaway and others. 

During the twenty-five years of its existence, the so- 
ciety has undertaken many different branches of work, 
such as the distribution of tracts, Bibles, books, etc., look- 
ing after the poor, carrying on cottage prayer meetings, 
sending out committees on invitation to the colleges and 
doing other special work. But its special mission has 
always been, from the beginning, the maintaining and 
carrying on of its weekly prayer meetings for men and 
boys, and the organization and building up of mission 
stations. The policy has been to organize missions and 
to develop them into churches as rapidly as possible. To 
this end untiring support, both personal and financial, has 
been rendered, and the work done speaks for itself. With 
few exceptions we have never resorted to any methods of 
entertaining members or maintaining the interest outside 
of strictly religious services. The society has always had 
the sympathy and support of the Church materially and fi- 
nancially. Erom its members there have gone out a number 
of ministers of the gospel; among them are Z. T. Cody, 
W. B. McGarrity, W. A. Johnson, H. C. Bucholtz and 
others. The society has never been largely attended, but 
there have always been enough of the young men interested 
to carry on its enterprises, and all who have attended the 
meetings testify to the power and benefit received. The 
weekly prayer meetings have been of untold benefit in 
maintaining the organization and in stimulating the work 
in the mission field. The custom has been to send mem- 
bers out into new fields, and as they develop into churches 
to transfer the workers to the new church for its own 



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benefit. In this way many valuable church workers have 
been trained and sent out, and to-day nearly all the 
churches in the city number among their officers and dea- 
cons men who have gone out from this society. The work 
has been done in a practical way, looking to future devel- 
opment and stability more than to temporary enthusiasm 
and success. In this way it has been made more perma- 
nent and far reaching and has constantly grown to larger 
proportions from year to year, until at the present time 
the society can number among the members of the churches 
it has organized a far larger membership than the mother 
church, some of the churches themselves having almost as 
large an attendance as our own. The hearty support the 
Church has given is appreciated, and it is hoped that a still 
more glorious future awaits our united efforts. 

In all of the work we have been greatly aided by many 
outside brethren and sisters. 

The present officers of the society are: President, 
Walker Dunson; vice-president, Dr. W. E. Campbell; 
secretary, W. G. Barrett; treasurer, T. J. Day. 



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r 

HISTORY OF THE MISSION WORKERS. 



BY MISS CORA BROWN. 



To write the history of the Mission Workers of the 
Second Baptist Church is to wellnigh write the history 
of one generation of women, as exemplified in practical 
charities, certainly of all that formative part of their 
church lives, extending from young womanhood to 
motherhood, for the main part of the membership of this 
society consists to-day of the young matrons of the Sec- 
ond Church. 

Well do I recall how on the summer day of July 12, 
1882, almost a quarter of a century ago, our newly in- 
stalled pastor, Dr. Henry McDonald, of memory ever to 
be revered, and who so recently left us to answer the 
Master's "Come up higher," made a call for the young 
ladies of the Church to meet him in his study. We gladly 
responded and he, himself, organized us into a band of 
church workers, writing the constitution and by-laws of 
what was called "The Young Ladies' Missionary Society 
of the Second Baptist Church the young ladies who are 
its members, to do such church work as they could, to visit 
strangers and others who do not attend service and to< try 
to induce them to do so, and to secure the co-operation of 
all its members in church work. Standing committees 
were appointed to visit and relieve the wants of the poor, 
to work for the Sunday-school by visiting absentees and 
bringing others into the school, and a committee to fur- 
nish information on missions at home and abroad. The 
work of these committees is vigorously prosecuted to-day, 
and a few others have been added, according to the judg- 
ment of the officers. 

Soon after our organization, early in the fall of 1882, 
a call to educate a Mexican girl was made by Mr. Mozely, 
our missionary in Mexico. This was the first work of 



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this kind ever -undertaken by our society. Here I depart 
from the recital of our work chronologically, to say that 
the wisdom of this step in the matter of educating some 
useful, available young woman, eager for knowledge, has 
been so abundantly proven that hardly since these early 
days of our society's existence has there ever been a time 
in our history when we have not been engaged in a similar 
work. We attribute these good results to the wise head and 
loving heart of our early guide, whose counsel and time 
were ever at our disposal. 

With no desire to be vainglorious or over-boastful but 
simply to tell the story of our works, do we speak of our 
achievements. We withhold the names of those whom we 
have clothed and educated, but they are many. Just at pres- 
ent we have a young girl at Monroe College whose whole 
expenses for a series of years have been undertaken by us ; 
no small obligation indeed, but we shall accomplish it with- 
out doubt. This is the second girl we have thus helped 
from our Georgia Baptist Orphans' Home. Already news 
comes to us that this last young woman hopes to fit her- 
self for mission work abroad. Is not that worth all our 
anxiety a3 to where the money is to come from? We 
hardly saw our way clear to undertake this more recent 
work, when one afternoon our pastor, Dr. White, hap- 
pened in at our society meeting, and but for his words 
of cheer so fitly spoken, I believe we would have voted 
"Unable to do this work at present." We pondered and 
prayed over the matter after our pastor's talk, with the 
result that the next week saw the young woman enrolled 
at Monroe, the protegee of the "Mission Workers." With 
the ever-ready "Eummage Sale" idea, the recollections of 
past successes in this line, visions of enticing our Church 
membership to lunches at a reasonable fee, bazaars and 
lectures, ever sources of small revenue, and with some 
personal sacrifice on the part of each member, we are 
meeting these payments and always in advance ; not with- 



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out foresight either as to the approaching note due on the 
Church debt. 

Looking back to December, 1890, I find the record of 
our last meeting in the old church and that was a sad 
day in some respects, and then came the time when we 
worshipped in our rough tabernacle on Mitchell street, 
a stone's throw from the present Church, while our new 
building was being erected on the old site. Then I note 
days of discouragement when our members were few, 
attendance small and interest flagged, but by means of an 
occasional cup of "social tea" and other small devices, 
we held together. Sometimes the heat of summer almost 
disheartened us, but we never all became discouraged at 
one time. 

Our records show some loss by death, some by trans- 
ference to churches more convenient to their homes, a 
natural change in a growing city such as ours, an occa- 
sional new name added to our roll, and most recently of 
all, one member and her husband departed as missionaries 
to China. Our books show acknowledgment of help in cash, 
brick, donations to pastor's salary and to the Young Men's 
Mission Society in their various mission churches through- 
out the city, a silent partnership pleasing to recall. 

I come now to the year 1894 — March 4 — when we 
seem to have outgrown our name of "Young Ladies' Mis- 
sion Society," and by unanimous consent we became "The 
Mission Workers," for a new set of young women had 
more just claim to our former name. During the winter 
of 1896-97 we took up the study of "The History of the 
Baptists in All Ages," each member making a talk or 
reading a paper of interest and information, until we had 
completed the study. Our Wednesday morning sewing 
circles bring us in many pennies for we take orders for 
garments to be made, and our sewing basket is never 
empty. 

Beginning at our own doors, we always have and will 
continue to contribute regularly to all the items on the 



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scheduled list sent out by the Mission Boards — Home and 
Foreign — the Church debt. Travellers' Aid at Union Pas- 
senger Depot, indigent ministers, boxes to frontier mis- 
sionaries, and extending to our most remote fields abroad, 
for ours is a glad, self-imposed mission service to the Mas- 
ters cause and all who love it. We realize from whom 
our strength comes and with an ever-abiding confidence 
in Him, with thankful hearts for what He has enabled us 
to do, bespeaking the prayers of our brothers and sisters, 
we shall press forward to greater things in His name. 

Officers of Mission Workers 1904. 

Miss Ione Newman President. 

Mrs. Geo. M. McKenzie .... Vice-president. 

Miss Elizabeth Hart Secretary. 

Mrs. Walker Dtoson Treasurer. 

Mrs. M. M. Welch Mission Treasurer. 

Miss Cora Brown - . . . Treasurer Sinking Fund. 



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Joseph E. Brown. 
"Georgia's Great War Governor.' 



HISTORY OF THE CHRISTIAN LIGHTS' BAND. 



BY MRS. HARVEY HATCHER. 



Tn 1899 Mrs. Geo. McCarty, President of the Woman's 
Missionary and Benevolent Society, suggested organizing 
the girls from twelve to eighteen years into a society to 
develop, educate and foster mission and Christian work. 
To the girls, themselves, belong the honor of putting into 
execution her admirable suggestions. Three of them asked 
Mrs. Harvey Hatcher to aid them in organizing a society. 
On April 9, nine girls met Mrs. Hatcher in the pastor's 
study and the following officers were elected : 

Leader — Mrs. Harvey Hatcher. 

President — Miss Trances Briscoe. 

First Y ice-President — Miss Elizabeth Ely. 

Secretary — Miss Caroline Westmoreland. 

Corresponding Secretary — Miss Louise Welch. 

Treasurer — Miss Estelle Eitzgerald. 
The meetings have been held twice a month, and the 
first mission study was "Paul's boyhood, missionary jour- 
neys, and life." In 1902, Miss Ninetta Day was elected 
president, and Miss Laura Armstrong, leader, and kept us 
by correspondence in touch with Foreign Missions. During 
this year, our pastor, Dr. John E. White, came before 
the little band and asked for $50 for the Church debt. To 
show our appreciation, instead of $50, we gave $68. In 
1903, Miss Florence Smith was elected president, Mrs. 
Sumner, leader. It was during this year that the band 
had the honor of suggesting to the other societies of the 
church that we give a "Missionary Reunion" to those 
women whose names were first enrolled in "Women's 
work for Women" in the Second Baptist Church. It was 
a notable event. These women were organized in 1873. 
The reunion took place November 13, 1903, thirty years 
after date of organization, and four of the original mem- 



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bers were present. In April of this year one of the first 
members, Mattie Morgan, heard the Master's s ummo ns, 
and beloved by all, has left us. 

In 1903 Mrs. Hatcher resigned as leader and Miss 
Alice Ely succeeded for a few months. Since that time 
we have had no leader. In 1904 Miss Jessie Hall was 
elected president; Miss Mattie Wilkins, secretary; Miss 
Florence Smith, corresponding secretary, and Miss Sarah 
Westmoreland, treasurer. There are other faithful mem- 
bers whose names do not appear but who are faithful 
workers. Since its organization they have contributed to 



the following objects : 

Church sinking fund $86.00 

Orphans' Home 42.83 

Foreign Missions 21.00 

Home Missions (boxes for frontier) .... 76.00 

Home Missions 3.50 

State Missions 3.00 

City Missions (travelers' aid) 9.25 

General Benevolence 47.01 



Total $288.74 



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THE JUNIOR MISSION WORKERS. 



BY MES. IP. M. COKEE. 



The Junior Mission Workers, the youngest society in 
the Second Baptist Church, was organized the 18th of 
March, 1901, in the Sunday-school room. It is composed 
of boys and girls from the ages of six to fourteen, many 
of whom are children of members of the Mission Workers' 
Society of the Church. 

An interesting fact connected with its organization is 
that Margaret Welch asked her mother, who is a member 
of the Mission Workers, to let her join her society, and 
when informed that she was too young to join the Mis- 
sion Workers, she said "why can't we have a society for 
children ?" A society for children was discussed, a meet- 
ing was called, and after organizing it was decided to call 
it "The Junior Mission Workers." 

Our pastor, Dr. John E. White, Mrs. F. M. Coker, Mrs. 
Cassin and Miss Nellie Fuller aided in the organization 
and have been leaders from the beginning. There were 
about sixty children present at the lirst meeting, and the 
following officers were elected for one year: Margaret 
Welch, president; Edith Dunson, vice-president; McDon- 
ald Brittain, secretary ; Frances Connally, treasurer. 

The society first met once a month but afterwards twice 
a month. At the regular meetings we have songs, prayers, 
Scripture reading, reports of officers, recitations, selected 
readings, talk by leaders, and sometimes from our pastor, 
items of business and collections. 

The average receipts of the society dues and entertain- 
ments vary each year from twenty-five to forty dollars, 
which is paid out for missions, the poor and the Orphans' 
Home. 

The present officers are: Edith Dunson, president; 
Ethel Read, secretary; Elvira Westmoreland, vice-presi- 
dent; Earl Yancey, treasurer. 



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When the society was first organized, only a few were 
members of the Church, but since then many of the chil- 
dren have given their hearts to God. This semi-centen- 
nial of our Church is a reminder to us, the youngest mem- 
bers, that most of our Christian life stretches out into the 
future. Perhaps some of us will stand here to take part 
in the hundredth anniversary. How inspiring to think of 
a lifetime before us to be given to the service of God! 
May we grow in wisdom and grace and the love of God 
as the years go by, and continue to work for missions at 
home and abroad. With gratitude to God for his bless- 
ings upon us, as a society, we will attempt and expect 
greater things in the future. 



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HISTORY OF THE B. Y. P. U. OF THE SECOND 
BAPTIST CHURCH. 



BY MARY ROBERT. 



For ten years efforts were made at intervals to establish 
a B. Y. P. II., but the records show that it was not until 
Friday, October 5, 1900, that the society was permanently 
organized. The first officers were Paul Etheridge, presi- 
dent ; Dr. Claude Smith, vice-president ; Miss Frances M. 
Briscoe, secretary; Miss Louise Welch, treasurer. The 
three study courses were undertaken, with Mr. Woodson 
as leader of the Bible Header's Course ; Mr. Pnxon, Sacred 
Literature Course, and Mr. McGregor, Conquest Mission- 
ary Course. 

For the first two years it was a struggle for existence. 
But in October, 1902, an undaunted remnant gathered to 
make plans for another season ; and then it was determined 
to push the study feature more vigorously than in the 
past — making the Sacred Literature Course the serious 
business of the Union. Quite a number were found willing 
to pledge themselves to the study with a view to standing 
the examinations in the spring. The result was that 
under the leadership of Dr. White and Prof. Brittain, was 
completed the most successful year of our organization — 
as evidenced by the twenty-five or thirty papers sent in 
at the close of the study season. 

Thus far the history of our Union is only that of be- 
ginnings, but with our pastor as its enthusiastic leader and 
director, those who have faith in the B. Y. P. U. to meet 
a distinct need of our young people have every cause for 
hope concerning its future. 

Finally, we would call attention to the avowed purpose 
of our organization, and earnestly invite all who are in 
hearty sympathy with that purpose to come with us. 

"The object of the Union shall be to secure the increased 



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spirituality of our Baptist young people ; their stimulation 
in Christian service; their edification in Scripture knowl- 
edge; their instruction in Baptist doctrine and history; 
and their enlistment in missionary activity through exist- 
ing denominational organization." 



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EARLY HISTORY OF THE YOUNG LADIES' 
MISSIONARY SOCIETY. 



BY MARY CONNALLY SPALDING. 



Early in the year 1897 the young ladies of this Church 
had no definite, organized work. Realizing this, Miss 
Mary Eunnally and Miss Mary Connally, after a con- 
ference with Dr. Henry McDonald, called a meet- 
ing of all the young ladies of the Church, March 
8, 1897. Dr. McDonald was present at this meet- 
ing, and so we began our work with his prayers 
for our guidance and his encouragement as a spur to the 
accomplishment of great endeavor. 

The names of twenty-four girls were enrolled as char- 
ter members, the constitution and by-laws were adopted 
and it was decided to hold two meetings a month. 

The following officers were elected: Miss Mary Con- 
nally, president ; Miss Kate Richards, vice-president ; Miss 
Mary Nunnally, secretary; Miss Mary Ormond, corre- 
sponding secretary ; Miss Kate Pendleton, treasurer ; Miss 
Leontine Chisholm, mission treasurer. 

The charter members were Laura Adair, Laura Arm- 
strong, Mary Connally, Leontine Chisholm, Sallie Calla- 
way, Edmonia Clarke, Eannie Hatcher, K"ina Fuller, 
Myrtle Eluker, Lillie Eurhman, Sallie McBride, Mary 
Ormond, Shatteen Mitchell, Kate Pendleton, Eloise Pitt- 
man, Mittie Parker, Kate Richards, Katherine Ruther- 
ford, Myrtis Smith, May Watkins, Ida Watson, Blakey 
Sharpe, Mary Nunnally. 

Good work was commenced and carried on for about 
three years, when there came a period of discouragement. 

In the summer of 1900 the society was reorganized and 
the work began again with great enthusiasm. Mrs. Howard 
Kerfoot was elected leader; Miss Mary Connally, presi- 
dent; Miss Laura Adair, vice-president; Miss Mary Or- 



39 



mond, second vice-president; Miss Annie Kate Barnes, 
secretary ; Miss Ellen Hillyer, treasurer. From that time 
great prosperity has resulted. Our records show much 
done for the Church debt, the Orphans' Home, missions, 
charity, etc. 

This history would not be complete without giving an 
account of the stewardship of some few of the faithful 
ones of our number who have brought about the prosperity 
and widespread influence which we now enjoy. 

Mrs. Mattie P. Kerfoot was a spiritual inspiration 
during the short while she worked with us; Miss Ellen 
Hillyer (now Mrs. Alfred Newell) was for years an effi- 
cient treasurer, giving us her time and efforts ; Miss Leon- 
tine Chisholm (now Mrs. Walter Andrews) has proven 
and still proves to be our "friend in need ;" Miss Augusta 
Garrett, our present president, has had a mcst successful 
administration. 

These are only a few of the many whose work could 
be set down as a part of our history. We feel thankful 
for the seven years of effort that are past and pray for a 
larger field of usefulness in the future. 



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Central Baptist Church— Rev. R. L. Motley, Pastor. 



THE YOUNG LADIES' SOCIETY. 



BY AUGUSTA GARRETT. 



The society has at present five officers: President, 
Miss Augusta Garrett ; vice-president, Miss Mabel Taylor ; 
secretary, Miss Ella May Thornton; treasurer, Miss 
Eloise Pittman; Church debt subscription treasurer, Miss 
Mary Ella Yancey. 

Each successive year we are trying to broaden our work, 
and at present, besides subscribing to our own Church 
needs, we help as we can the Orphans' Home, State, Home 
and Foreign missions, contributions towards the Travelers' 
Aid Association, and last year instituted a practical 
Christmas philanthropy among some few of our poorer 
families here in the city. 

We bent our efforts towards the relief of our Church 
debt as long as we felt that burden, and now, with our 
present pledge of $400, can count in the neighborhood of 
$1,100 which we have given to that cause. 

For the Orphans' Home, besides having furnished the 
ladies' reception room and donated two cows, we have tried 
to give the children some of the simple pleasures of child- 
hood. We have three or four times given them lawn 
parties and a frolic, and also augmented their supply of 
dolls, on one or two occasions. Besides subscriptions to 
State, Home and Foreign missions, each fall we send to 
some frontier missionary a box of material comforts that 
is usually valued at a hundred dollars. 

One particularly interesting work in Japan we were 
enabled to undertake through the untiring efforts of one 
of our most faithful members — Mrs. John Spalding. It 
Was the placing in school, under Mrs. Clarke, of two 
J apanese girls, who were about to be sold into slavery. 

Our work for the past two or three years amounted 
annually, to about $400, and our membership is 



41 



not nearly so large as we want it. With monthly dues 
of ten cents, you will doubtless wonder whence comes the 
$400. One of our chief sources of revenue is our annual 
bazaar, where we serve an excellent dinner and sell holi- 
day gifts. 

We meet the first and third Monday afternoons, usu- 
ally at the home of one of the members. We have a de- 
votional exercise preceding the business meeting, and often 
have the pleasure of having an address from some one on 
a subject of interest. 

We are anxious to increase our membership and there- 
by increase our work. We would be glad to make this 
birthday celebration of our mother church a wonderful 
epoch in our little band. An earnest invitation is ex- 
tended to any young woman in the Church or congrega- 
tion to join us. A prefix of Mrs. does not disqualify for 
membership. 

The statistical report of the treasurer, submitted to 
the Stone Mountain Association in September follows. 

Report of Young Ladies'' Missionary Society for 
Stone Mountain Association, Year Ending 
September 1, 1904. 



Foreign Missions $61.50 

Home Missions 3.00 

State Missions 5.00 

City Missions 20.50 

Church Work 428.50 

Orphans' Home 90.95 

Benevolence 19.00 

Value of Box to Frontier 100.00 



Total $728.45 



42 



THE SUNDAY-SCHOOL. 



When the Second Baptist Church was constituted, a 
Sunday-school was organized with Dr. J. W. Bomar as 
superintendent, who served from 1854 until about 1858. 
Mr. Sidney Boot succeeded Dr. Bomar and filled the 
office from 1858 until 1865; Mr. J. J. Toon followed, 
serving until 1866. W. M. Janes acted as superintendent 
from this period until 1871, when Col. T. P. Westmore- 
land was elected and served until his connection with the 
Methodist Church one year afterwards. A. C. Briscoe 
then occupied this position until 1874, when he left the 
city for the purpose of attending college, and was succeeded 
by Jno. T. McGuire. Four years later Judge Jno. T. 
Pendleton succeeded Mr. McGuire and continued in office 
until 1878, when A. C. Briscoe was again elected. Mr. 
Briscoe served until 1881, when he removed to Chatta- 
nooga, and was succeeded by Mr. Thos. J. McGuire. Ke- 
turning to the city in 1883, A. C. Briscoe was again made 
superintendent, which position he has since continuously 
held. 

It is worthy of note here that it was a class of this Sun- 
day-school taught by Brother Knott, that established what 
was afterwards known as the Third Baptist Church. 

In 1866 and 1867 there was a large mission school con- 
ducted in the upper part of the Church, with Mr. Geo. 
Connor as superintendent. This was during the superin- 
tendency of J. J. Toon. For many years Judge Jas. 
Clarke taught the Senior Bible Class, now so ably in- 
structed by Judge Jno. T. Pendleton. 

The pride of the Second Baptist Sunday-school is the 
Primary Department, which has been developed and 
managed by Mrs. Harvey Hatcher. Mr. William Hurd 
Hillyer gives able assistance to this important work, as well 
as Mrs. Hall, Mrs. Edwards and others. In addition to 
those who now conduct this department, we may mention as 
former teachers Miss Millie Rutherford, Miss Belle Roach, 



43 



Mr. Foster, Miss Fuller, Mrs. George Westmoreland, and 
particularly Mrs. M. B. Barnes. 

For more than thirty years Mr. Briscoe has been the 
unanimous choice of teachers and pupils for superintend- 
ent. Jle takes a personal interest in the spiritual work 
especially, and it is perhaps due to him more than any 
one else that so large a number of those joining the 
Church have come through the Sunday-school. 

Nb account of the Sunday-school would be complete 
without reference to the splendid efficiency of F. J. Paxon. 
He is not only the popular instructor of one of the largest 
classes, but is also chairman of the Financial Department, 
and it is largely due to his ability that the school takes 
such high rank in this respect. The report of the Stone 
Mountain Association for 1904 shows the largest contri- 
butions from the Second Baptist Sunday-school of any 
within the bounds of that body. 

The territory surrounding the Church is not so densely 
populated as in many other parts of the city and the 
number of Sunday-school scholars has never been very 
large. The enrollment at present is about 350 with an 
average attendance of 275. 

The officers are: 

A. C. Briscoe Superintendent. 

E. H. Thorntow . . . Assistant Superintendent. 
M. L. Brittain .... Assistant Superintendent. 

H. C. Robert Secretary. 

Dr. L. D. Carpenter Treasurer. 

Marion Mathews Librarian. 

Miss Bessie Bush Organist. 



44 



Roll-call of the dead. 

List of persons who died while members of the Second Baptist Church, 
from its Organization in 1854, to the Semi-Centennial Celebration Novem- 
ber 27-30, 1904. (Original members in capitals.) 





JOINED 


BY 


died 


Armstrong, Dr. Wm. S. 


May 


12, 1866, 


Letter 


Feb. 


10, 1896. 


Anderson, Mrs. E. B. 


Feb. 


11, 1866, 


Letter 






Allen, Rev. J. S. A. 


Feb. 


16, 1870, 


Letter 






Antagus, Mrs. Georgia A. 


Jan. 


2, 1878, 


Letter 


May 


6, 1880. 


Abbott, Lewis L. 


Mar. 10, 1882, 


Letter 


Aug. 


7, 1903, 


Abbott, W. L. 


May 


3, 1882, 


Letter 


Dec. 


18, 1903. 


Atkinson, Miss Mary- 


Apr. 


16, 1884, 


Letter 


Nov. 


27, 1899. 


Adair, Jas. A. 


Sept. 28, 1887, 


Letter 


July 


30, 1891. 


Ashley, Mrs. Fanny B. 


Sept. 17, 1889, 


Letter 


Feb. 


3, 1897. 


Aldredge, Mrs. Sophie 


Sept. 


8, 1872, 


Baptism 


Dec. 24, 1901. 


BOMAR, B. F. 


Aug. 


9, 1854, 


Letter 


Apr. 


1868. 


Brown, Ex-Gov. Jos. E. 


July 


15, 1866, 


Letter 


Nov. 


30, 1894. 


Brown, Mrs. Elizabeth 


July 


15, 1866, 


Letter 


Dec. 


26, 1896. 


Brown, Mrs. Mary- 


May 


12, 1866, 


Letter 


Aug. 


4, 1867. 


Brantley, Mrs. Mary Ann 


July 


30, 1865, 


Letter 






Butt, Wm. M. 


July 


9, 1862, 


Baptism 


Nov. 


8, 1888. 


Butt, Mrs. Mary E. 


July 


9, 1862, 


Baptism 


Jan. 


13, 1894. 


Blanchard, Mrs. Martha 


Jan. 


23, 1860, 


Letter 


Feb. 


14, 1892. 


Baird, Mrs. Mary L. 


Oct. 


10, 1868, 


Letter 


May 


28, 1891. 


Baird, John B. 


Oct. 


10, 1868, 


Letter 


Sept. 


2, 1897. 


Baird, Mrs. Frederica T. 


Sept. 11, 1874, 


Letter 


Nov. 


19, 1875. 


Bozeman, Dr. J. F., Den. 


Apr. 


12, 1871, 


Letter 


Nov. 


10, 1877. 


Bozeman, Mrs. Eva 


Apr. 


12, 1871, 


Letter 


Dec. 


22, 1899. 


Brown, Mrs. Mecca J. 


June 


4, 1862, 


Baptism 


July 


23, 1885. 


Brown, Chas. McD. 


Mar. 


21, 1872, 


Baptism 


Aug. 


19, 1881. 


Brown, Mrs. Law McB. 


Apr. 


23, 1882, 


Baptism 


Dec. 


18, 1896. 


Blanchard, Miss Mary 


Sept. 


1, 1872, 


Baptism 


Aug. 31, 1877. 


Benson, Lawrence 


July 


12, 1874, 


Baptism 


Oct. 


5, 1878. 


Brown, Mrs. M. J. 


July 12, 1874, 


Letter 


July 


23, 1885. 


Boykin, Mrs. Arabella H. 


Feb. 


12 1875, 


Letter 


Oct. 


2, 1879. 


Boykin, T. C, Jr. 


Feb. 


12, 1875, 


Letter 


Dec. 


4, 1880. 


Boykin, Miss Katie 


Apr. 


18, 1875, 


Baptism 


Sept. 


1, 1875. 


Boggus, Henry C. 


June 20, 1875, 


Baptism 


Dec. 


8, 1876. 


Bush, Mrs. Lula 


Aug. 


8, 1875, 


Baptism 


July 


31, 1879. 


Baldwin, Mrs. Rebecca 


Sept. 


1, 1875, 


Letter 


May 


4, 1903. 


Benjamin, J. S. 


Feb. 


22, 1882, 


Letter 






Buckley, Rev. R. H. 


July 


7, 1886, 


Letter 






Bridges, Mrs. Ophelia 


Apr. 


2, 1888, 


Letter 


Aug. 


15, 1896. 


Bridge, Mrs. Augusta M. 


Oct. 


2, 1867, 


Baptism 


Mar. 


11, 1889. 



45 





joined 


BY 


DIED 


Broomhead, John S. 


Feb. 


26, 1893, 


Letter 


July 


30, 1902. 


Boggs, Edward T. 


Apr. 


21, 1895, 


Letter 


July 


11, 1896. 


Barksdale, Miss Dora 


May 


3, 1896, 


Baptism 


Feb. 


9, 1897. 


Bolt, Robert A. 


Oct. 


10 1900 


Letter 






Ptq7C»qI TVTt 1 cf Perm t o 


Nov. 


24, 1869, 




Dec. 


17, 1873. 


Rn gTi TViTto T\Tq ti pit TT 
xjuo-u, lviito. iNaiiLj' H/. XT. 












"RiiqIi T?nT->orf XT' 

xjubii, xtuuerL jdj. 












COLEMAN, F. H. 


Aug. 


9, 1854, 


Letter 


Aug. 


3, 1861. 


Chisholm, Mrs. Rebecca 


Sept. 12, 1858, 


Letter 


Nov. 


25, 1891. 


Chisholm, Mrs. Martha B. 


Feb. 


6, 1867, 


Letter 


May 


6, 1887. 


Chisholm, A. G. 


June 24, 1888, 


Baptism 


Jan. 


17, 1897. 


Callaway, Jas. H., Den. 


Aug. 


15, 1866, 


Letter 


June 18, 1876. 


Callaway, Mrs. Sarah 


Aug. 


15, 1866, 


Letter 


Mar. 


16, 1876. 


Crawford, Mrs. Annie 


Oct. 


4, 1862, 


Baptism 


Sept. 10, 1863. 


Clark, Calvin S. 


Jan. 


13, 1859, 


Baptism 






Clarke, James 


May 


14, 1859, 


Letter 


Dec. 


12, 1878. 


Clarke, Mrs. Permelia T. 


May 


14, 1859, 


Letter 


May 


8, 1882. 


Cole, Mrs. Amelia Clark 


May 


14, 1859, 


Letter 


Nov. 


27, 1863. 


Clarke, Marshall J. 


May 


14, 1859, 


Letter 


Oct. 


20, 1898. 


Cole, Mrs. M. E. 


Nov. 


12, 1859, 


Letter 


July 


1, 1860. 


Cook, Dr. Virgil C. 


Aug. 


28, 1867, 


Letter 


July 


9, 1889. 


Carter, Mrs. Cordelia M. 


May 


6, 1863, 


Letter 






Clayton, Miss Jennie 


Feb. 


11, 1872, 


Letter 


July 


3, 1899. 


Chovin, A. G. 


June 18, 1873, 


Letter 


Nov. 


12, 1882. 


Chovin, Miss Fanny J. 


Aug. 


8, 1879, 


Letter 


June 20, 1899. 


Cole, W. J. 


Mar. 19, 1884, 


Letter 


Mar. 


24, 1896. 


Cowles, Laura S. 


Oct. 


6, 1886, 


Letter 


Nov. 


24, 1886. 


Clark, Mrs. Lydia 


Sept. 28, 1887, 


Letter 


Jan. 


29, 1891. 


L-raniorci, xvirs. juaura 


Apr. 13, 1888 


Letter 


Aug. 


23, 1891. 


Conklin, Miss Mary 


Apr. 


15, 1888, 


Baptism 






Callaway, Mrs. M. w". 


Mar. 


3, 1895, 


Letter 


May 


24, 1895. 


Dunlap, M. A. 


June 


6, 1875 ' 


"Baptism 


Nov. 


3, 1878. 


Dawson, Mrs. Elizabeth 


Aug. 


23, 1876 


Letter 




1897. 


Duncan, Miss T. E. 


Apr. 


18, 1887 


Letter 


Feb. 


4, 1893. 


Davis, Mrs. Mary E. 


Jan. 


5, 1889, 


.Letter 


Mar. 


5, 1899. 


jjaiiiei, jonn ±t. 


May 


31, 1895 


Baptism 


Sept. 18, 1902. 


Dillard, Mrs. Annie H. 


June 


5, 1872, 


Letter 


Jan. 


9, 1901. 


Ewell, Mrs. Fannie 


Apr. 


14, 1880 


Letter 




1900. 


Elmore, E. J. 


May 


21, 1883 


Letter 


July 


18, 1884. 


Eley, M. J. 


July 


25, 1883 


Letter 


Oct. 


8, 1883. 


Ellis, Wm. A. 


Dec. 


18, 1887 


Letter 


Oct. 


24, 1892. 


Etheridge, W. Clyde 


Jan. 


1, 1899 


Letter 


Mar. 


14, 1900. 


Evans, Mrs. Emma Wynne 


June 30, 1872 


Baptism 


Feb. 


24, 1881. 



46 





joined 


BY 


DIED 


Franklin, J. H. 


Jan. 


9, 1867, 


Letter 


Apr. 


17, 1897. 


Fleming, Mrs. Marie 


May 


6, 1862, 


Letter 




1900. 


Fullilove, L. 


Mar. 


23, 1870, 


Baptism 


Nov. 


7, 1873. 


Fleming, C. P. 


June 31, 1875, 


Letter 


May 


17, 1876. 


Foster, Geo., Den. 


June 


9, 1871, 


Letter 


Sept. 18, 1877. 


Glenn, Mrs. Mildred C. 


Mar. 


1, 1857, 


Letter 


Apr. 


25, 1900. 


Grubb, Samuel 


Dec. 


27, 1857, 


Letter 


May 


30, 1871. 


Grubb, Mrs. Ellen 


Dec. 


27, 1857, 


Letter 


June 


4, 1872. 


Gardner, Mrs. Rebecca 


July 


7, 1866, 


Letter 






Gaskill, Mrs. Martha 


Apr. 


12, 1862, 


Letter 


July 


14, 1869. 


Goldsmith, Mrs. Mary E. 


Dec. 


9, 1870, 


Letter 


Oct. 


2, 1887. 


Garrett. Mrs. E. E. 


Sept. 15, 1872, 


Baptism 


Oct. 


18, 1874. 


Goza, D. C. 


Feb. 


25, 1873, 


Letter 


Mar. 


17, 1903. 


Goza, Mrs. Eva 


Feb. 


26, 1873, 


Letter 


Oct. 


25, 1899. 


Goza, Walter 


May 


17, 1885, 


Baptism 


May 


19, 1899. 


Goldsmith, Mrs. Sarah L. 


Feb. 


9, 1877, 


Letter 


Aug. 


9, 1878. 


Green, J. A. 


Sept. 20, 1893, 


Letter 


Sept. 22, 1893. 


Green, Mrs. Emma 


Sept. 20, 1893, 


Letter 






Goldsmith, Miss Betty- 


Jan. 


16, 1898, 


Baptism 


June 


8, 1898. 


Goldsmith, Dan. Stowe 


July 


4, 1890, 


Baptism 


Aug. 


21, 1900. 


Hurt, W. J. 


Sept. 


6, 1862, 


Letter 


Nov. 


28, 1878. 


Hurt, Mrs. Martha A. 


Sept. 


6, 1862, 


Letter 


Sept. 


6, 1897. 


Harris, Mrs. Maria 


May 


1862, 


Letter 


Dec. 


6, 1884. 


Hall, Mrs. Mary E. 






Letter 


June 28, 1899. 


Holmes, Rev. A. T. 


Jan. 


7, 1870, 


Letter 


Sept 29, 1870. 


Howard, A. G. 


Feb. 


16, 1870, 


Letter 


Jan. 


26, 1893. 


Hill, Wade, 


Dec. 


9, 1870, 


Letter 


Oct. 


30, 1876. 


Hill, D. Pike 


Sept. 


1, 1872, 


Baptism 


July 


25, 1900. 


Hill, 0. C. 


May 


16, 1875, 


Baptism 


Nov. 


26, 1886. 


Hill, Rob't. P. 


Sept. 


1, 1872, 


Baptism 


Nov. 


26, 1886. 


Hulsey, Mrs. M. J. 


Apr. 


10, 1858, 


Letter 


Mar. 


11, 1876. 


Holloway, D. F. 


Mar. 


1, 1871, 


Letter 


Mar. 


2, 1887. 


Horn, Mrs. Josie (Received by the Church for bap- 


Oct. 


28, 1876. 



tism on profession of her faith, but 
on account of serious illness which 
began immediately afterward, she 
was never able to be baptized.) 



Hammock, C. C. 


June 


2, 1878, 


Baptism 


Dec. 


15, 1890. 


Hall, Mrs. Ann Ida 


Apr. 


4, 1883, 


Letter 


June 


25, 1894. 


Haygood, Rev. F. M. 


Sept. 10, 1884, 


Letter 


Apr. 


5, 1901. 


Haygood, Mrs. Louisa A. 


Sept. 


10, 1884, 


Letter 


Aug. 


5, 1894. 


Hanvey, G. M. 


Aug. 


31, 1887, 


Letter 


Nov. 


16, 1900. 


Harralson, Allen 


Nov. 


16, 1887, 


Letter 


Mar. 


2, 1889. 



47 



JOINED BY DIED 



Hatcher, J. L. 


Feb. 


27, 


1889, 


Letter 


July 


22, 1891. 


Hillyer, Rev. S. G., D.D. 


June 


18, 


1893, 


Letter 


Feb. 


19, 1900. 


Hogan, F. S. 


June 


9, 


1895, 


Letter 




1898. 


Harp, Miss Ann 


Nov. 


24, 


1897, 


Letter 


June 


9, 1899. 


Jones, F. H. 


Dec. 


10, 


1869, 


Letter 






Jones, Mrs. Sarah I. 


Dec. 


10, 


1869, 


Letter 






Jackson, Rob't. E. 


Feb. 


10, 


1871, 


Letter 


July 


11, 1875. 


Jackson, Dr. R. S., Den. 


Nov. 


22, 


1871, 


Letter 


July 


15, 1880. 


Johnson, Mrs. Mary D. 


Aug. 


28, 


1872, 


Letter 


June 


12, 1877. 


Jenkins, J. W. K. 


Mar. 


3, 


1880, 


Letter 


Apr. 


1, 1882. 


James, Miss Lizzie 


June 


25, 


1882, 


Baptism 


Aug. 


17, 1894. 


Johnson, Mrs. Amelia 


Sept. 


12, 


1883, 


Baptism 


July 


10, 1885. 


Johnson, Dr. Thad. 


Apr. 


15, 


1888, 


Baptism 


Oct. 


2, 1890. 


Janes, Dr. J. W. 


June 


24, 


1888, 


Letter 


Dec. 


30, 1902. 


Johnson, J. C. P. 


Oct. 


30, 


1892, 


Letter 


Feb. 


22, 1901. 


Jones, Mrs. Mary 


Apr. 


9, 


1893, 


Letter 


Dec. 


1, 1896. 


Karar, Mrs. Laura Bush 














Kendrick, S. S., Den. 


Feb. 


9, 


1867, 


Letter 


Nov. 


26, 1880. 


Krog, Mrs. Jane 


Feb. 


18, 


1855, 


Letter 


June 


24, 1881. 


Kendrick, Mrs. Emily 


Feb. 


9, 


1867, 


Letter 


Apr. 


18, 1878. 


Kelly, Mrs. May 


Aug. 


15, 


1866, 


Letter 


Sept. 


23, 1886. 


Kifld TVTi c ! c ? Till ifi 


May 


AO, 


1873, 


XJ (X y Liolli 






Knott, Mrs. M. A. 


July 


7, 


1876, 


Letter 


Apr. 


10, 1889. 


Kruger, Mrs. Dora M. 


Mar. 


20, 


1878, 


Letter 


Aug. 


4, 1881. 


King, Porter, Den. 


Apr. 


18, 


1885, 


Letter 


Oct. 


24, 1901. 


Kerfoot, Rev. F. H., D.D. 


Nov. 


26, 


1899, 


Letter 


June 


22, 1901. 


Lipham, Mrs. Frances 


Aug. 


9, 


1854, 


Letter 


June 


8, 1862. 


Luckie, Miss E. 


Oct. 


19, 


1862, 


Baptism 






Luckie, Mrs. Parmelia 


Dec. 


2, 


1863, 


Baptism 


Jan. 


9, 1901. 


Linn, Mrs. 


July 




1861, 


Letter 


Nov. 


30, 1869. 


Lane, Mrs. Mary W. 


Jan. 


6, 


1871, 


Letter 


June 


30, 1880. 


J-*U.HipiVlLl, XvtJV. W. Q. 


ijcpi. 


q 


1 87** 
J-O t o, 




Jan. 


1, 1895. 


Loyal, Richard J. 


Apr. 


26, 


1886, 


Baptism 


Fall 


of 1887. 


Love, Dr. Wm. A. 


Apr. 


27, 


1885, 


Letter 


Jan. 


22, 1898. 


Love, Mrs. Marion L. 


Apr. 


27, 


1885, 


Letter 


Nov. 1900. 


Long, D. 0. 


Dec. 


5, 


1894, 


Letter 


Sept. 16, 1902. 


McDANIEL, L 0. Den. 


Aug. 


9, 


1854, 


Letter 


Aug. 


28, 1887. 


McDANIEL, MRS. N. D. 


Aug. 


Q 

y, 


1501, 


Letter 


May 


1862. 


McDANIEL, MRS. R. I. 


Aug. 


9, 


1854, 


Letter 


Apr. 


19, 1869. 


Merideth, Mrs. Georgia W. Feb. 


9, 


1867, 


Letter 






Milledge, John 


Oct. 


16, 


1866, 


Letter 


Feb. 


2, 1899. 


Marshall, A. E. 


Mar. 


12, 


1864, 


Letter 


Jan. 


3, 1870. 



48 



1 



/ 



Martin, Mrs. Elmira 
McGuire, Miss Adelie S. 
Merritt, Mrs. Mary 
McGuire, John T. 
McBride, Locke S. 
McLendon, Mrs. Sarah J. 
McKee, Mrs. Ann A. 
Mann, Mrs. Lucy J. 
Morris, Mrs. S. M. 
Martin, Mrs. Mary 
Morris, Mrs. Mittie 
Miller, Mrs. P. A. 
Mann, Miss Hennie 
Moore, Mrs. Elizabeth 
Malone, F. N. 
Manry, Mrs. Lula R. 
Massey, Nathan 
McMichael, J. C. 
Maner, Mrs. Susan 
McDowell, W. H. 
Milledge, Mrs. Catherine 
Morgan, Miss Mattie 
Maxwell, Mrs. E. C. 
Nunnally, A. F. 
Neal, John 
Nace, Anna R. 
Nace, John M. 
Northen, T. H., Den. 
O'Keefe, Dr. D. C. 
O'Keefe, Miss Mary T. 
O'Keefe, Miss Sally 
O'Dair, John 
O'Dair, Susie, Miss. 
Pittman, Richard 
Pittman, Daniel 
Phillips, Frank P. 
Pemberton, Dr. J. S. 
PendletoD, Mrs. Isabella 
Parks, Miss Ella 
Prothro, G. A. 
Putnam, Israel 
Packard, Miss Mary J. 
Palmer, Mrs. Katie I. 
Powers, Mrs. M. O'Keefe 



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| -> BY 


Jan. 


26, 1862, 


Letter 


Mar. 


1, 1871, 


Letter 


Nov. 


10, 1871, 


Letter 


May 


26, 1872, 


Baptism 


May 


26, 1872, 


Baptism 


Nov. 


27, 1872, 


Letter 


Dec. 


14, 1873, 


Letter 


Jan. 


14, 1874, 


Letter 


Jan. 


10, 1874, 


Letter 


Oct. 


11, 1874, 


Letter 


Mar. 


3, 1875, 


Letter 


May 


28, 1879, 


Letter 


Apr. 


18, 1880, 


Baptism 


July 


25, 1883, 


Letter 


Sept. 10, 1884, 


Letter 


Apr. 


8, 1886, 


Baptism 


Sept. 14, 1890, 


Letter 


Dec. 


13, 1891, 


Letter 


Feb. 


3, 1892, 


Letter 


Sept. 


5, 1892, 


Letter 


July 


22, 1896, 


Letter 


July 


7, 1901, 


Baptism 


Sept. 27, 1868, 


Baptism 


Feb 


6, 1867, 


Letter 


Oct. 


11, 1862, 


Baptism 


Jan. 


22, 1860, 


Letter 


June 


13, 1875, 


Baptism 


Feb. 


20, 1884, 


Letter 


Jan. 


1860, 


Letter 


Oct. 


25, 1867, 


Baptism 


Oct. 


2>5, 1867, 


Baptism 


Nov. 


9, 1881, 


Letter 


Nov. 


9, 1881, 


Letter 


Oct. 


22, 1862, 


Baptism 


June 23, 1871, 


Baptism 


Oct. 


'25, 1867, 


Baptism 


June 11, 1869, 


Letter 


Oct. 


5, 1870 


Letter 


Nov. 


9, 1873, 


Baptism 




1875, 


Baptism 


Apr. 


7, 1882, 


Letter 


Mar. 


10, 1886, 


Letter 


Apr. 


6, 1875, 


Baptism 


May 


27, 1883, 


Baptism 



DIED 

Oct. 3, 1878. 
May 8, 1878. 

June 1881. 
Jan. 4, 1893. 
Sept. 23, 1887. 
May 20, 1876. 
Apr. 16, 1901. 



Dec. 3, 1885. 

Nov. 11, 1901. 

Dec. 26, 1887. 

June 3, 1899. 

Nov. 29, 1897. 

Feb. 13, 1889. 

Nov. 26, 1891. 

Oct. 15, 1895. 

May 25, 1902. 

Dec. 23, 1895. 

Mar. 19, 1904. 

Apr. 26, 1903. 

June 21, 1891. 

Sept. 18, 1878. 

Jan. 4, 1886. 

Nov. 28, 1884. 

June 7, 1889. 

Mar. 23, 1904. 

Aug. 8, 1871. 

July 28, 1870. 

Feb. 24, 1872. 

Mar. 2, 1882. 

May 26, 1882. 

Dec. 19, 1882. 

May 23, 1886. 

Aug. 10, 1872. 

May 17, 1890. 

Jan. 6, 1888. 

Dec. 4, 1889. 

June 10, 1889. 

Aug. 22, 1878. 

Apr. 14, 1894. 



49 



Richards, Mrs. S. N. H. 
Rucker, Mrs. Lydia V. 
Root, Sidney- 
Root, Mrs. Mary- 
Richards, Rev. Wm. 
Richards, Mrs. Ann G. 
Roach, Dr. E, J. 
Reeves, Mrs. Narcissa I. 
Richards, Henry H. 
Richards, Mrs. Ellen G. 
Rabun, Mathew W. 
Rockwell, Rev. O. 
Rockwell, Mrs. L. F. 
Richards, Mrs. Lou S. 
Richards, Wm. Arthur 
Richard's, Mrs. Martelia G. 
Richards, Miss Ethel W. 
Richards, Miss Flora 
Robinson, Ed. H. 
Richards, Mrs. Julia 
Rogers, G. C. 
Robert, Rev. J. T. 
Robert, Miss Juliana E. 
Robert, Miss Mattie A. 
Rhodes, Mrs. Mary E. 
Robinson, Mrs. M. L. 
Robert, Mrs. Isabella 
Reid, Mrs. Jennie D. 

SHURBURN, MRS. E. 
Smith, Mrs. Elizabeth 
Shaver, Wm. H. 
Shorter, Mrs. Mary N. 
Shannon, Mrs. Emma 
Sigman, Mrs. Martha 
Seals, Millard 
Sloan, Mrs. Fanny 
Steele, John B. 
Sharpe, Mrs. Matilda C. 
Swift, Mrs. I. C. 
Swift, Homer 
Swift, Mrs. Emma 
Seago, E. M. 
Sanders, Dennis N. 
Straton, Mrs. Julia 



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Feb. 


18, 1856, 


Letter 


Dec. 


28, 1856, 


Letter 


Feb. 


28, 1858, 


Letter 


Dec. 


28, 1858, 


Letter 


Oct. 


13, 1866, 


Letter 


Oct. 


13, 1866, 


Letter 


May 


5, 1860, 


Baptism 


Oct. 


13, 1860, 


Letter 


Nov. 


12, 1859, 


Letter 


Dec. 


27, 1857, 


Letter 


Oct. 


25, 1867, 


Baptism 


Feb. 


9, 1868, 


Letter 


Feb. 


9, 1868, 


Letter 


June 


6, 1869, 


Baptism 


Mar. 


17, 1872, 


Baptism 


Apr. 


10, 1872, 


Letter 


May 


24, 1874, 


Baptism 


Aug. 


1, 187-5, 


Baptism 


Aug. 


29, 1875, 


Baptism 


Oct. 


10, 1877, 


Letter 


Aug. 


30, 1879, 


Letter 


Dec. 


24, 1879, 


Letter 


Jan. 


10, 1883, 


Letter 


Jan. 




T .pffpr. 


July 


12, 1882, 


Letter 


Apr. 


13, 1887, 


Letter 


Dec. 


19, 1888, 


Letter 


Jan. 


5, 1889, 


Letter 


Aug. 


9, 1854, 


Letter 


July 


16, 1864, 


Baptism 


Oct. 


5, 1867, 


Baptism 


Apr. 


19, 1871, 


Letter 


Oct. 


5, 1867, 


Baptism 


Dec. 


12, 1877, 


Letter 


July 


18, 1875, 


Letter 


May 


5, 1878 


Baptism 


Jan. 


10, 1883, 


Letter 


Apr. 


11, 1886 


Letter 


May 


4, 1902, 


Letter 


Apr. 


17, 1887 


Baptism 


Dec. 


10, 1890 


Letter 


June 


19, 1892 


Letter 


Mar. 


20, 1895 


Letter 



DIED 

July 18, 1859. 

Feb. 13, 1897. 

Jan. 8, 1886. 

July 14, 1871. 

Mar. 14, 1872. 

Sept. 11, 1890. 

Dec. 14, 1872. 

Mar. 5, 1875. 

Apr. 28, 1881. 

Mar. 13, 1873. 

July 5, 1879. 

Mar. 29, 1871. 

Dec. 31, 1869. 

Jan. 28, 1893. 

Oct. 23, 1873. 

Apr. 29, 1893. 

Sept. 29, 1878. 

Feb. 4, 1885. 

Dec. 3, 1879. 

Mar. 5, 1884. 

Aug. 10, 1897. 

Jan. 1890. 

Sept. 18, 1898. 

Apr. 30, 1890. 

June 13, 1891. 



Apr. 8, 1868. 

Sept. 1876. 
Sept. 6, 1886. 
Sept. 22, 1883. 
June 2, 1876. 
Oct. 3, 1879. 
Jan. 7, 1884. 

1896. 

Jan. 31, 1904. 
Mar. 26, 1902. 
Feb. 1, 1896. 

Sept. 6, 1897. 
July 14, 1896. 



50 





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BY 




DIED 


Toon, J. J. 


Oct. 


4, 1862, 


Letter 


Nov. 


10, 1893. 


Thurman, Dr. P. B. 






Baptism 


June 


10, 1896. 


Taylor, Mack J. 


June 13, 1875, 


Baptism 


Sept. 13, 1885. 


Tucker, Rev. H. H., D.D. 


Apr. 


9, 1884, 


Letter 


Sept. 


9, 1889. 


Tucker, Mrs. Sarah 0. 


Sept. 22, 1880, 


Letter 


Feb. 


3, 1902. 


Torrence, Mrs. Susan M. 


Jan. 


24, 1883, 


Letter 


Aug. 


18, 1886. 


Tichenor, Rev. I. T., D.D. 


Mar. 


31, 1888,, 


Letter 


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2, 1902. 


Thornton Mrs. Annie M. 


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23, 1884, 


Letter 


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22, 1890. 


Talbird, Miss Olivia 


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23, 1898, 


Letter 






Taylor, H. S. 


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5, 1899, 


Letter 


Oct. 1900. 


Watkins, Mrs. Rebecca D. 


Feb. 


7, 1858, 


Letter 


Dec. 


14, 1885. 


Watkins, Elihu P. 


May 


30, 1875, 


Baptism 




1899. 


Watkins, Miss May L. 


Apr. 


18, 1886, 


Baptism 


May 


27, 1899. 


Watkins, Jas. L. 


Jan. 


10, 1894, 


Baptism 


Feb. 


2, 1894. 


Williams, Miss May L. 


July 


16, 1866, 


Letter 






Ware, Mrs. Elizabeth 


Aug. 


15, 1866, 


Letter 


Mar. 


6, 1869. 


White, Edward, Den. 


Aug. 


22, 1862, 


Letter 


Jan. 


19, 1898. 


West, Henry A. 


Oct. 


27, 1866, 


Letter 






Whitehead, Elijah 


Feb. 


7, 1873, 


Letter 


Mar. 


29, 187-5. 


White, Mrs. Thursa 


Apr. 


19, 1874, 


Letter 


Sept. 


2, 1878. 


Watson, Miss Mattie, 


June 27, 1875, 


Baptism 


Apr. 


7, 1885. 


Webster, James N. 


Apr. 


5, 1876, 


Letter 


Apr. 


16, 1891. 


Whitehead, Mrs. 








July 1876. 


Weatherby, Chas. P. 


Dec. 


22, 1878, 


Baptism 


Apr. 


12, 1886. 


Welch, Mrs. E. L. 


Mar. 


19, 1879, 


Letter 


May 


1, 1891. 


Wylie, Mrs. Mannie S. 


Mar. 


19, 1884, 


Letter 


Dec. 


7, 1885. 


Winn, Miss Minnie L. 


Jan. 


21, 1885, 


Letter 


Nov. 


27, 1885. 


Wylie, Henry L. 


Apr. 


8, 1888, 


Baptism 


Nov. 


16, 1894. 


Williams, Mrs. Mary 


July 


17, 1892, 


Baptism 


July 


24, 1894. 


Wiley, Pred 


Feb. 


28, 1897, 


Baptism 


June 


9, 1897. 


Wells, Mrs. Ophie D. 


Apr. 18, 1886, 


Baptism 


June 


17, 1894. 


Zimmerman, Richard P. 


June 15, 1856, 


Letter 


Mar. 1892. 



51 



MEMORIAL SERVICES. 
Address by Gen. Clement A. Evans. 

It seems to be in the hearts as well as on the tongues 
of the Presbyterians and Methodists present to-night to 
claim kindred with the members of this roble Church and 
to share the very natural joy that all feel in recalling the 
names and services of those members who in the past 
half-century died in the faith. I beg to be numbered 
among the close kin by flesh and blood and by the yet 
greater bonds that bind together the one family in Christ. 

It is true indeed that during the solemn call of the 
roll of the dead all of whom became illustrious by their 
reflection of the Light of Christ, there was present within 
us the undertone of a natural sorrow that death ever 
came and reigned at all in this world. But above all our 
emotions the joy of Christian triumph rises as the su- 
preme controlling note of this joyful occasion. 

You have kindly observed that I sometimes wander into 
your house to worship with you, and to hear the strong, 
wise, eloquent sermons of Dr. White. You will under- 
stand this more fully by knowing now that the call of the 
roll to-night brought freshly to my mind many persons 
whose friendship and fellowship I heartily enjoyed. John 
T. Clarke and Marshall J. Clarke, two of the best lawyers 
in Georgia, were reared with me as children together in 
the county of our nativity. I began with John the prac- 
tice of law and always admired his great ability. Sidney 
Eoot, a gentle-spirited, lovely gentleman, was my Sun- 
day-school teacher, and from him I early learned by pre- 
cept and example the principles of the doctrine of Christ. 
Several of those whose names this Church has cherished 
were my Confederate brothers with whom I served and 
suffered in a dear cause that ended in the ashes of sorrow. 
Among them the whole-souled, impetuous, chivalric John 
Milledge, by whose battery I sometimes sat my horse 



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while he played the melodies of war from the mouths of 
his cannon. Others still I could name who were men of 
great civil and religious service, among whom I rejoice 
to recall the personal friendship always borne for me by 
Joseph E. Brown, whose remarkable life is inseparable 
from the history of the State. 

My dear friend, Dr. Spalding, has most generously al- 
luded to our heart-to-heart fellowship in a mutual work 
when he was in the forefront of Atlanta's religious labors 
as the pastor of this Church, while I worked with Trinity 
Methodist Church. The Sunday songs of our congrega- 
tions mingled, and thus our labors were united in absolute 
freedom and perfect fellowship. Dr. Spalding's hands 
and mine were clasped then, and they will remain so 
until the handclasp shall be broken a brief while, — after 
which we shall enjoy a greeting again upon the fields of 
everlasting service. 

Wonderful indeed have been the experiences, the influ- 
ences, the services and the successes of this Church of the 
living God through the semi-century which has brought it 
to the golden anniversary, — the jubilee year — of its mar- 
riage in 1854 with our Lord. Eight churches in our city 
are now its children. It is "Mother of Churches," and 
yet it is in the beauty, grace, and power of youth. Chris- 
tianity never grows old. Its Lord became Redeemer on 
his cross in the year of his manly vigor and he remains 
forever young. His Church will never pass into the sere 
and yellow leaf of decaying power. 

I have spoken from my heart and from my heart comes 
the prayer — May God bless this Church forever. 



53 



Address by T. P. Cleveland. 



I desire to express my thanks for the privilege of tak- 
ing some part in this sad but deeply impressive and inter- 
esting semi-centennial service. 

While numbers of names on the roll of the honored 
dead were familiar to me, I desire to call attention par- 
ticularly to three. The first name called, Dr. William 
Armstrong, the eminent physician, was a schoolmate and 
classmate in Washington, Ga. ; Rev. Thos. Boykin, the 
faithful laborer, was a fellow pupil and roommate at the 
South Carolina College; Rev. Dr. Tucker, brilliant and 
scholarly, whom I have always regarded as one of the best 
teachers of logic this or any other country has produced, 
was a friend of mine. Ex-Governor McDaniel, whose 
name was mentioned among those now living who were 
once members of this Church, is a relative on my mother's 
side of the house. I want to state here also that I was 
born and reared in old Wilkes County, Georgia, "the 
hornet's nest of the Revolution" ; and that in that same 
county Rev. Jesse Mercer, D.D., lived. There he went 
to school two years to Rev. Jno. Springer, the first or- 
dained minister of the Presbyterian church south of the 
Savannah River — "for whom Mr. Mercer never ceased to 
cherish feelings of the greatest respect and veneration, 
and at his death composed an appropriate and affecting 
eulogy on his character." 

In this same county Mr. Mercer obtained his first and 
also second wife, the second one — Mrs. Nancy Simons — 
bringing to him by marriage the means used so liberally 
in endowing Mercer University and in aiding other good 
causes. 

Let me also say that Rev. Billington Sanders, first 
president of Mercer, was a cousin of mine by marriage, 
and last of all I held the unique position (for a Presby- 
terian minister) of vice-president of a Baptist female 
seminary, now the celebrated Brenau. 



54 



May the Lord richly bless our dear Bro. Spalding, who 
has done such good work here in the past, and also our 
dear young brother, Dr. White, who is doing such good 
work now, and may the members of this time-honored 
Church be an Aaron and Hur Society to hold up the 
hands of their leader in all of the conflicts between Israel 
and Amalek. 



55 



Address of A. T. Spalding. 



The Roll of Our Dead." 



There is one roll which has not been read — the roll of 
our dead babes. Fifty of these I buried in the ten years 
of my pastorate. The roll would probably comprise some 
two or three hundred. At the call up yonder, every one 
of them will answer, "Here." The transient lives of these, 
our precious darlings, and the pitiless pain of their ab- 
sence left their imperishable imprint upon the hearts and 
homes of the people. If the transient shadow of the gos- 
samer wing of a passing bee stamps some impress on the 
bloom of the violet, who can measure the 'influence for 
good that these little messengers from God have stamped 
upon our lives. 

"Fold the waxen hands together, 
Close the soft and dreamy eyes. 
See ! how like a broken lily 
Calm and beautiful she lies." 

In the remainder of your dead — a list of some three 
hundred — there are five pastors: Charles M. Irwin, 
Thos. U. Wilkes, John T. Clarke, Wm. T. Brantley, 
and Henry McDonald. 

Wilkes was a plain man, somewhat rough in style and 
voice, but full of zeal and spiritual fervor, and was emi- 
nently successful. 

Irwin, born to wealth and social advantage, educated 
at our State University and the University of Virginia, 
first lawyer, then a preacher, pleasing in manner and 
address, he has left the blessing of a good name. 

Claeke, predestined to high place and honor, by birth, 
environments and talent of high order, attained to emi- 
nence in his short service as a pastor and in his longer 
and brilliant service as lawyer and judge. 



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Hon. Porter King. 
Deacon Second Baptist Church 
1902. 



Thos. H. Nobthen, 
Died in Deacon Second Baptist Church; Died in 

1904. 



Beantley, handsome, polished, scholarly, peer among 
great preachers, speaking with great charm of style and 
grace of manner, always full of pious thought, yet flash- 
ing with genial pleasantries; where once known he will 
never he forgotten. 

McDonald, the touching pathos of his early life, the 
sorrows that lay upon him in later times, his own sweet 
winsomeness, his tender aftectionateness, his scholarly at- 
tainments, his quiet, abiding humor, his wisdom in coun- 
sel, his fidelity to the gospel and his success in preaching 
it; these and many other things make him easily the first 
in the heart of this Church, and that heart weeps with 
every mention of his name. 

The roll of the deacons contains the names of ten. 
Pre-eminent among these were James H. Callaway, Porter 
King and Thomas Northern The other seven deserve 
distinguished mention, "but they attained not to the first 
three." The heart of this church is still saddened from 
the recent death of the last named. Modest but efficient, 
not even his closest friends knew the extent of the benevo- 
lent charity dispensed by this brother. 

If time failed Paul "to tell of David and Samuel and 
the prophets," how can one tell of all the holy men, old 
and young, and of all the honorable women, not a few, 
"of whom the world was not worthy." 

Let us uncover our heads a moment as we stand in the 
presence of our sainted dead. Among the distinguished 
ministers see: 

Joseph Thomas Kobeet, LL. D., graduate of Brown 
University, filling Chairs in two universities and then 
president of one. 

Shaler G. Hieeyer, D. D., through the best part of a 
long and useful life as professor of rhetoric in Mercer 
University, fitting the sons of Georgia for enlarged pro- 
fessional usefulness. 

H. H. Tucker, D.D., L.L.D., professor and president 
of Mercer, proprietor and editor of The Christian Index; 
born logician, brilliant writer, a masterly pulpit orator. 

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F. H. Kerfoot, successor of Richard Puller, professor 
in our seminary, corresponding secretary of our Home 
Mission Board. 

I. T. Tichenob, eloquent son of the South, a chief 
among lawyers, teachers, preachers; lifting up the Home 
Mission Board to heights of broader vision and more bold 
endeavor. He has left an enduring fame. 

Rockwell, and Holmes, and Haygood, and Allen; these 
four attained not the rank of the other five, but none left 
a tarnished name. 

Among all of Georgia's dead, where are worthier ones 
than these: Wade Hill, Judge James Clark, John Eeal, 
Sidney Boot, J. J. Toon, John Milledge, Dr. O'Keefe, 
founder of Atlanta's public schools ; Israel Putnam, John 
McGuire, Bob Jackson, Matt Rabun, Marshall Clarke, 
Mrs. Mary Ann Brantley, Mrs. Joseph E. Brown, Mrs. 
Dr. Bozeman, Mrs. Sarah Callaway, Mrs. Caroline Chis- 
holm, Mrs. Mary Ann Norcross, and others that swell the 
worthy roll. 

All these were distinguished by their fidelity to the 
faith. They kept in step with the movement of the times 
and" with the march of the kingdom of God. They had 
a broad philanthropy. 

John Neal, the aged, through slush and snow would go 
through the city at Christmas time, dispensing food and 
fuel. 

IJoseph E. Brown gave one New Year one hundred tons 
of coal to Atlanta's needy ones, and that same year fifty- 
one thousand dollars to our Theological Seminary, and 
afterwards fifty thousand dollars to aid poor young men 
at the State University. 

Our Orphans' Home at Hapeville was born out of the 
heart of Mary Ann Norcross. 

The Christian Index has been mainly owned and edited 
by members of this Church. 

The lives of J. J. Toon, Jas. P. Harrison, David Shaver, 



58 



H. H. Tucker and J. C. McMiehael were largely sub- 
merged in the work of this denominational paper. 

On the blue waters of the Mediterranean Sea, in south- 
ern IVance, is the old city of Marseilles. In it lived a 
man named Guyot, who, by incessant toil and personal 
privation amassed a large fortune. Regarded as a miser, 
he was often hooted at and sometimes cursed. After his 
death, when his will was read, it was found to contain 
these words : 

"Having observed from my childhood that the poor of 
Marseilles are ill supplied with water, which can only be 
purchased at a great price, I have cheerfully labored the 
whole of my life to procure for them this great blessing; 
and I direct that the whole of my property shall be laid 
out in building an aqueduct for their use." 

So the dead of this Church, toiling long and late, pour- 
ing out their time and wealth, oftentimes misunderstood, 
sometimes condemned, have followed in their Master's 
step, until to-day they stand resplendent, crowned with 
the crowns of life and righteousness and glory — unfading 
and incorruptible. 



59 



THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE SECOND BAPTIST 
CHURCH TO GEORGIA AND THE WORLD. 



BY JNO. E. WHITE AND GEORGE HILLYER. 



The values in a moral force operating through a period 
of fifty years are not easily calculable; and when that 
force is a Christian church in which divine truth and 
supernatural energies are the main factors it is utterly 
impossible to trace out and sum up the results to human 
life of its activity during a half -century. 

The contribution of the Second Baptist Church to 
Georgia and the world during the fifty years of its his- 
tory can not be estimated in statements or statistics. To 
us who mark the record of this Semi-Centennial it is 
possible only to stand outside of the history which has 
been made and point to the monuments of its progress, 
the institutions of its generous missionary life and to the 
names and characters of men and women who have made 
illustrious this body of Christ before the world. 

The character and spirit of the Second Baptist Church 
does not encourage boasting or self-glorification. The solid, 
the genuine, the permanent as opposed to the loud, the 
pretentious, the unsubstantial, are the ideals it has always 
set up to be honored and pursued. It has been known as 
a conservative church, and yet no church in the South 
has been more aggressive in actual achievements. It has 
been called a dignified church, and yet it has always ex- 
hibited such a tenacity of enthusiastic loyalty and an in- 
tensity of fraternity among its members as to be held up 
as an example to other churches. It has steadfastly main- 
tained its separation from the State and from politics, 
and yet few churches have had influentially, through rep- 
resentative public men among its members, so large a share 
in shaping Southern civilization. 

In attempting an enumeration of the facts which con- 
stitute the contribution of the Second Baptist Church to 



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the world, we point with loving pride (1) to the noble 
men of God who have been its pastors, of whom special 
record is elsewhere made, Eev. Chas. M. Irwin, 1855-56; 
Eev. T. TJ. Wilkes, 1856-58; Eev., and afterwards Judge, 
John T. Clarke, 1858-61 ; Eev. Wm. T. Brantley, D.D., 
1861-71; Eev. A. T. Spalding, D. D., 1871-81; Eev. 
Henry McDonald, 1881-1900; and the present pastor, 
Eev. John E. White, D. D., who succeeded to the pastor- 
ate in 1901. 

Also among the names which ornament the history of 
the Church are the ministers of the gospel sent forth to 
the world from the spiritual loins of the Second Baptist 
Church, every one of whom has wrought with signal 
prominence and worthiness. 

Dr. Z. T. Cody, now pastor of the First Baptist 
Church, Greenville, S. C. 

Dr. J os. A. Wynne, pastor of the First Baptist Church, 
Gainesville, Ga. 

Eev. H. C. Buckholz, pastor of the First Baptist 
Church, Hawkinsville, Ga. 

Eev. W. B. McGarity, a successful pastor in Texas. 

Eev. J. I. Oxford, general missionary of the Georgia 
State Board in Coffee County, Georgia. 

Eev. W. A. Johnson, now pastor of churches in Fay- 
ette County, Georgia. 

Let us not forget also to mention in grateful admiration 
the names of ministers who have adorned the membership 
of this Church. 

Henry Holcombe Tucker, whose power and influence 
for nearly a half-century was mighty indeed upon the 
Baptists of the South ; Shaler G. Hillyer, a master builder 
in the foundations of Georgia's moral civilization ; F. M. 
Haygood, who preached the first sermon ever heard in 
Atlanta, and who, under God, saw the city before his 
death with seventeen Baptist churches; Isaac Taylor 
Tichenor, the renowned secretary of the Home Mission 
Board of the Southern Convention, the prophet and states- 



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man of Southern Baptists; F. H. Kerfoot, his successor 
to that great office, the distinguished preacher, pastor and 
theologian, than whom a braver, nobler, finer personality his 
generation did not behold; Harvey Hatcher, standing 
among us in a rugged manhood of Christ, bearing his shield 
"sans peur, sans reproche;" Dr. Malcolm McGregor, who 
served the Church in 1900 most successfully as pastor's sup- 
ply and whose labors are now being blessed in England and 
Scotland ; Dr. J ames B. Taylor, for three years field super- 
intendent of the Georgia Baptist Orphans' Home, now an 
honored minister in Virginia. 

These men, both the living and the dead, have poured 
a tide of spiritual strength into the Second Baptist Church 
and have in turn received from her spiritual nourishment 
for their distinguished labors as ministers of God. 

(2) Chief est of all contributions of this Church to 
the world are the eight noble churches which acknowledge 
the Second Baptist as mother. They are our joy and 
crown of rejoicing. Let us call their roll and pause to 
reflect upon the streams of blessing which, through them, 
issue to the world of mankind from the spring which 
gushed forth at God's touch on this hillside fifty years ago. 

The Third Baptist Church, now the Baptist Taber- 
nacle, with its fifteen hundred members, its Sunday- 
school of eleven hundred, its institutions and manifold 
activities of evangelization; the Jones Avenue Church, 
with three hundred and seventy-eight members; the Cen- 
tral Baptist Church, with its membership of three hundred 
and sixty-eight souls; Woodward Avenue Baptist Church, 
and its membership numbering three hundred and eighty- 
four; Temple Baptist Church and its three hundred and 
ninety-six members ; Glenn Street Baptist Church and its 
two hundred and sixty-seven members; Capitol Avenue 
Baptist Church and its four hundred and ninety members ; 
Immanuel, with its three hundred members; McDonald 
Mission, the latest born, thrifty and hopeful, with over one 
hundred members. 



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These churches, with the mother church, now consti- 
tute in the city of Atlanta a Baptist church membership 
of 5,242 people reported to the last session of the Stone 
Mountain Association, a Sunday-school enrollment of 
4,432, contributions aggregating to all causes last year 
$89,191.48, 412 baptized on profession of faith, and hold 
church property valued at $261,500. 

All of these churches, except the Tabernacle, were be- 
gun by the Second Baptist Church as mission Sunday- 
schools either through the Young Men's Missionary So- 
ciety or by the labors of its consecrated and generous mem- 
bers and were fostered patiently into self-support and in- 
dependence by years of devoted struggle until, strong in 
their own strength, they have now pressed on to their noble 
positions in the community. 

It is said that James A. Garfield, when he received the 
oath of office as President of the United States, turned 
immediately from the outstretched hands of dignitaries 
and Foreign Ministers and stooped first of all to imprint 
a kiss upon the forehead of his mother, saying, "Mother, 
I owe it all to you." The Second Baptist Church awaits 
not the praise of her fair daughters but rather honors 
them for what they are in their own right and might 
under God, and is grateful to have nursed their infancy, 
rocked their cradles and shared their sorrows and early 
struggles; saying at this hour of retrospect, "It is the 
Lord's doing and it is marvelous in our eyes." 

(3) The Second Baptist Church has in a remarkable 
degree maintained that wholesome spiritual fellowship be- 
tween old and young, rich and poor, great and small, 
which is and must be characteristic of every true Chris- 
tian society. 

Wealth and culture have not been despised, nor poverty 
upbraided. Neither have been held as merits in them- 
selves and both have been weighed in the scales of moral 
character. Not unreasonably this Church has realized no 
small degree of its strength in families and individuals 



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which root and spring out of Georgia homes and South- 
ern homes which fostered the highest and best ideals of 
the older Southern civilization and thus has contributed to 
the fiber of the social fabric a large element of substantial 
and cultured citizenship; but chiefly its regard has been 
for the rugged values which inhere in no artificial esti- 
mates of human kind, but in character which is the spe- 
cific gravity of the souls of men and women. 

"No aspect of the life of the Second Baptist Church is 
more worthy of record than its heart power, its compas- 
sion for those whom misfortune had overtaken, for those 
who aspired to educational opportunity and for com- 
munities destitute of gospel privilege. 

A history of the work which has been and is now being 
done for orphan children will exhibit this Church in its 
tenderest light. Original among those who pioneered the 
movement toward the establishment of the Georgia Bap- 
tist Orphans' Home are the names of Mrs. John H. James, 
Mrs. A. D. Adair, Mrs. Harvey Hatcher, Mrs. A. J. 
Moore, Mrs. Kate Dawson, Mrs. A. B. Matthews, Mrs. 
Dr. Bozeman, Mrs. M. L. Blanchard, Mrs. C. Goodwynne, 
Mrs. M. Callaway, Mrs. Walter Gordon, Mrs. John T. 
Pendleton who joined with eighteen others from sister 
churches to constitute the charter members of the Georgia 
Baptist Orphans' Home Association. 

Of the Board of Trustees now managing the Georgia 
Baptist Home, nine are from this Church. 

Signally generous have been the deeds of liberality to 
missions and education by individual members of this 
Church. Among them may be mentioned A. D. and G. B. 
Adair, who gave the lot for the Glenn Street Church, cost- 
ing $1,000; Mrs. Dr. Bozeman, who was an unfailing 
spring of generosity for all causes of the Second Baptist 
Church for thirty years; Mr. John H. James, who, to- 
gether with Mrs. James, have been among the greatest 
benefactors of the Second Baptist Church in orphanage 
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I m manuel Baptist Ciiubch. — Rev. S. A. Cowan, Pastor. 




McDonald Mission. — Rev. J. T. Baxter, Pastor. 



a lot and built thereon a church costing $2,500 in West 
End, which became the Central Baptist Church, also 
a lot on Bell street on which they built a church costing 
$2,500, now the Woodward Avenue Baptist Church. Mr. 
James and Mrs. James more than thirty years ago began 
an orphanage on Houston street, afterwards removing it to 
Peachtree street, where they provided ten acres of land at 
a cost of $3,500 and conducted an orphans' home, aided in 
the management chiefly by members of the Second Baptist 
Church. Mr. J ames was perhaps the largest contributor in 
the building of the Third Baptist Church, now the Taber- 
nacle, and Jones Avenue Churches, the Sixth Baptist, 
now the Temple Baptist Church, and the Seventh, now 
Ponders Avenue Baptist Church, and through his daugh- 
ter, Miss Leola James, provided the lot on Bradley street 
on which was built the Edgewood Avenue Baptist Church, 
which has since gone out of existence. 

Standing with Mr. James in liberality in this early day 
of Baptist progress in Atlanta was Deacon James H. Cal- 
laway, who gave himself and his means largely to the 
cause without stint. 

In this company of princely Christians, many of whom 
are not mentioned by name, who heard and generously an- 
swered for this church the call of need and opportunity, 
Governor Joseph E. Brown was prominent. He moved 
in the circle of large achievements and his hand answered 
his heart whenever the cause of Christ laid its import- 
ance before him. Outside the immediate work of the 
Second Baptist Church (the Orphans' Home and the mis- 
sions of the Church to which he was at all times a leading 
contributor), Governor Brown gave $50,000 at one time to 
the University of Georgia, and also at a time when the 
fortunes of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary 
were in the balance, saved that great institution from 
wreck by a gift of $51,000. 

In the memoirs of Dr. James P. Boyce and Dr. John 
A. Broadus is related the pathetic story of how, when 



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hope was all but dead in their hearts, this gift came to 
save to the Baptists and the world the noble institution 
which is now remarkable all over the world as the largest 
theological seminary on earth. 

The record of this anniversary would not be just with- 
out a reference to the good influence this Church has sus- 
tained in its representatives upon public life. Its mem- 
bership has ever been strong, and contributed much to the 
service of the city and State. It is a remarkable fact, not 
premeditated or contrived, but coming along naturally — 
as church and city grew together — that nearly a third of 
the time, since the city of Atlanta was chartered, the 
mayors of the city have been members of the Second Bap- 
tist Church and congregation. We give their honored 
names and dates of service as follows : 

1. Benj. F. Bomar, Mayor 1849. 

2. William M. Butt, Mayor 1852. 

3. Jared I. Whittaker, Mayor 1861. 

4. John H. James, Mayor 1872. 

5. C. C. Hammock, Mayor 1873, 1875, 1876. 

6. George Hillyer, Mayor 1885, 1886. 

7. Jno. T. Glenn, Mayor 1889, 1890. 

8. Porter King, Mayor 1895, 1896. 

Besides these eight, all of whom were or are members of 
this church, there were two others of the congregation, and 
whose wives were members with us, namely : 

9. Jonathan ISTorcross, Mayor 1851. 
10. Luther J. Glenn, Mayor 1858, 1859. 

It is doubtful whether there has been any year during 
half a century, in which members of this church have not 
been called to service in the City Council, or on its Boards, 
or on the County Board, or on the Bench, or in the Legis- 
lature. 

The following have been members of the City Council, 
some of them many times : Benj. E. Bomar, Ira. 0. Mc- 
Daniel, J ared I. Whittaker, Wm. M. Butt, Ezra Andrews, 
P. E. McDaniel, D. C. O'Keefe, E. J. Eoach, J. H. Calla- 



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way, S. W. Grubb, C. C. Hammock, W. D. Ellis, J. W. 
Goldsmith, T. J. Buchanan, S. W. Day, A. J. McBride, 
Porter King, M. M. Welch, Thomas J. Day, E. S. Lump- 
kin, H. G. Hutchinson, R. P. Dodge, G. B. Adair and 
T. H. Goodwin, f 

The following have served the State or City in the 
capacities named : 

Members of the Legislature — George Hillyer, John H. 
James, W. D. Ellis, E. J. Roach, Henry Hillyer, Porter 
King, B. F. Abbott, Henry D. McDaniel, Geo. T. Pry, D. 
P. Hill. 

President of Park Commission and Member Board of 
County Commissioners — Walter R. Brown. 

Judge of the Court of Ordinary — (Probate) Daniel ET. 
Pittman. 

Judges of Recorder's Court — John T. Pendleton, John 
Milledge, and H. C. Glenn. 

Members of the Board of Education — Joseph E. Brown, 
M. C. Blanchard, John T. Glenn, John T. Pendleton, E. J. 
Roach, Wm. S. Brown, E. L. Connally. 

County School Superintendent — M. L. Brittain. 

Members of Board of Water Commissioners — C. C. 
Hammock, M. M. Welch, Samuel Wilkes, George Hillyer. 

Members of Board of Police Commissioners — Walter R. 
Brown, S. W. Day. 

(Solicitor of City Court — George Westmoreland. 

Members of Board of Park Commissioners — Sidney 
Root, W. B. Armstrong, Walter R. Ormond. 

Members of Board of Health — Wm. S. Armstrong, W. 
B. Baird, C. F. Benson. 

Trustee of Grady Hospital — G. S. Lowndes. 

Member Sinking Fund Commission — George M. Brown. 

Trustees Carnegie Library — Thomas J. Day, F. J. 
Paxon. 

State Treasurer — J. F. Bozeman. 

State Railroad Commission — Joseph M. Brown. 

Judge of Civil Court in Philippines — J. C. Jenkins. 



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Judge Samuel Lumpkin, Judge of the Superior Court, 
and afterwards for three terms Associate Justice of the 
Supreme Court. 

John D. Pope, George Hillyer, John T. Clarke and 
Marshall J. Clarke were each honored judges of the Supe- 
rior Courts of the State. John D. Cunningham was judge 
of the City Court of Montgomery, Ala. James M. Terrell, 
Governor, and for many years Attorney-general of the 
State, is a constant attendant upon church services, as is 
Chief Justice Beverly D. Evans. i 

It would fill a volume to account the deeds of all the 
noble men contributed from the Second Baptist Church 
to the service of the city, the State, and the nation. 

But before closing this record it is fitting to give a more 
extended notice of some of our members who have borne 
conspicuously the honors of public office. 

Ex-Governor Henry D. McDantel, a native of Eul- 
ton County, graduated at Mercer University in the class 
of 1856 and immediately afterwards transferred his 
church membership by letter to the Second Baptist 
Church, where his membership remained until he changed 
his residence to Monroe, Walton County, Georgia. 

After a brilliant war record and a service of several 
terms in the legislature, he was elected Governor to suc- 
ceed Alexander H. Stephens, and was afterwards re-elected 
to this office. He is still spared in the full vigor of his 
intellect for good and useful service to the Church and 
to the State. 

Judge Marshall J. Clarke, graduated at Mercer Uni- 
versity, and afterwards moved his membership in the early 
sixties to this Church, and continued with us until his 
death a few years ago. He was a lawyer of brilliant at- 
tainments and singular success. He was for a long time 
judge of the City Court and was afterwards, upon his 
merits, promoted to the judgeship of the Superior Courts 
of the Atlanta Circuit, which latter office he held as long 
as he could be induced to keep it. 



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He was a devoted, diligent and laborious teacher in 
the Sunday-school, and faithful in all the work of the 
Church. 

Governor Joseph E. Brown, the great "War Gov- 
ernor" of Georgia, who "filled a larger space in the history 
of the State than any other man of his day," was a member 
of the Second Baptist Church for nearly thirty years. He 
was a graduate of the Yale Law School. He was born in 
Pickens District, S. C, April 15, 1821, and died in At- 
lanta, November 30, 1894. He was State Senator, 1849- 
50; Presidential Elector, 1852; Judge of Superior Court, 
1855, 1857 ; Governor of Georgia for four successive terms, 
1857-65 ; Chief Justice of Georgia, 1868-70 ; United States 
Senator, 1880-91; president Western and Atlantic Rail- 
road, 1870-90; president City Board of Education, 1869- 
87, and for thirty years trustee of University of Georgia. 
His history is written in the "Annals of Georgia." 

Porter King, born in Alabama, wrought out his 
splendid life in Georgia, though at the time of his death, 
in 1902, the favor of the people and the love of men was 
in a high and rising tide upon him. Under his admin- 
istration Atlanta's great exposition was carried to suc- 
cess, and he was noteworthy as representative of Eulton 
County in the Georgia Legislature, but whether in office 
or out of office his life was a public service which com- 
manded the admiration and honor of all classes. On his 
monument in Oakland Cemetery are carved these words: 
"His relations in life were manifold and in every direc- 
tion ideal. To his home, to his church, to his associates, 
to his city, to his county, to his State, to his country — 
he was an ideal of law and loyalty." 



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THE DAUGHTERS OF THE SECOND BAPTIST 
CHURCH. 



Immanuel Baptist Church. 

BY S. A. CO WAN. 

To present the history of a church, even of one so young, 
in such a brief space is a difficult task. 

Immanuel Baptist Church, corner of East Fair street 
and Berean avenue, was conceived of the Holy Spirit in 
the heart of the Young Men's Missionary Society of the 
Second Baptist Church. The recitation of the early his- 
tory of the mission, out of which the church grew, is a 
story of sacrifice, devotion and determination not often 
seen. 

In November, 1894, a Sunday-school was organized in 
a three-room cottage on East Fair street, near Berean ave- 
nue, with about fifty pupils. The partitions of the 
house were removed to gain more space. It was 
soon found that more room was needed to accommo- 
date the school, so after two years' work at this place the 
mission rented and moved into Berean Congregational 
church at the intersection of Berean Avenue and Powell 
Street. The attendance continued to increase. While 
in this building an arm of the Second Baptist Church 
was extended, giving the right to receive members and ad- 
minister the ordinances. Here the mission voluntarily as- 
sumed the name of Berean, which it kept for some time 
afterward. 

After three years of continued prosperity at this place 
the Congregationalists decided to reorganize, so the 
building had to be abandoned by Berean Mission. A real 
difficulty was now encountered in securing a building suit- 
able in size and location. A workshop on Cameron street, 
just south of Woodward avenue was secured. Here 
the dark ages of the mission came on. The location 



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was not suitable, but there was a band of a faithful 
few who had faith in God and determination in 
their souls. The school went down to a membership of 
about fifty or sixty. The membership of the mission scat- 
tered and it looked for a while as if the work would fail, 
but the faithful few said, "we can not, we shall not fail." 
During these trying times the question of a permanent 
building was agitated. The Young Men's Missionary 
Society was appealed to for help and advice. With the 
co-operation of this society after some difficulty in decid- 
ing upon a lot, they purchased the land on which the 
church now stands at a cost of $600. The place was 
very uninviting and rough. After paying for the lot and 
grading there was left in the treasury $9.55. In various 
ways money was raised to excavate the furnace room and 
build the foundation up to the first floor during the first 
year. During the second year they put on the floor tim- 
bers, built the rock steps and pool, and put on the stone 
water table. The money failed again so they took another 
rest of a year. The needs of the mission became so urgent 
they determined to raise subscriptions on which money was 
borrowed to begin work. To these plans the Second Bap- 
tist Church agreed. Five trustees were appointed — three 
by the Second Church and two by the mission. These 
trustees were charged with the building of the church, to be 
deeded to Immanuel when finished. The work was begun 
anew in December of 1901 and continued until the build- 
ing could be occupied, which was on June 1, 1902. 

On January 5, 1902, the mission, by permission 
of the Second Baptist Church, organized into an in- 
dependent church with sixty-eight members. There was 
great joy from this time on. In April, 1902, Rev. J. S. 
Goodwin, who had faithfully labored with them as pastor 
through these struggles, resigned. A committee was ap- 
pointed to recommend his successor. The present pastor, 
Rev. Samuel A. Cowan, was chosen and he began his 
work on the first day of July, 1902. Under the guidance 

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of the Holy Spirit the work has gone on. God has won- 
derfully blessed the faithful workers. It is only just to 
say that to the persistent and untiring efforts of Mr. E. S. 
Lumpkin, Immanuel owes more than to any other man 
for its success. Here in this church all the organizations 
are in perfect harmony and moving on to greater things. 
One secret of our success is due to brotherly love and 
sociability. With a membership of 325, in one of the 
most substantial and beautiful church buildings in the 
city we are trying to realize the mission of the Master, 
who came to seek and to save that which was lost. 



Woodward Avenue Baptist Church. 

BY T. G. DAVIS. 

In September, 1871, Rev. Jas. F. Edens began a mis- 
sion on Decatur street between Bell and Grant streets. 
There was at that time no church of any denomination 
for white people in the fourth ward north of the Georgia 
Railroad and east of Ivy street. 

On December 24, 1871, the mission was organized 
into a church under the name of Fifth Baptist Church, 
with sixteen members. The Presbytery consisted of Dr. 
A. T. Spalding, pastor of the Second Baptist Church; 
Dr. David Shaver and Deacon James H. Callaway, of 
the Second Church; Dr. E. W. Warren, Rev. E. M. 
Shumate, I. E. Woodbury, C. K Maddox and M. C. Kiser, 
of the First Baptist Church, and S. Bailey, pastor of 
the Baptist Church of Albany, Georgia. Rev. James F. 
Edens, who had from the first been the father and founder 
of the work, was elected as pastor. 

For a time the church held its services in the lecture 
room of what is now known as the Atlanta Medical Col- 
lege, where it had been organized. In 1872, Mr. John 
H. James, of the Second Baptist Church, provided for the 
church a lot at the corner of Bell and Gilmer streets, and 

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erected on it a church building at a total cost of about 
$3,000, which he presented to the struggling body. 

This put them in possession of a home. The Church 
grew in power and influence under the faithful min- 
istry of Mr. Edens, until he resigned in September, 
1873. After his resignation the pulpit was supplied by 
Rev. Spears and others until December 16, 1874, when 
Rev. V. C. Eorcross was extended a call to become pastor. 
Tlheir call was accepted and Dr. E"orcross labored faith- 
fully and earnestly for about twenty years. He was highly 
esteemed among the brethren as a true minister of Jesus 
Christ. His work could not be more than hinted at in 
this connection. Suffice it to say that he shared their joys 
and sorrows and was to them what they needed in these 
years of struggle and a large membership was gathered into 
the church during his pastorate. 

His successor was C. !N". Donaldson, who resigned after 
a pastorate of seventeen months. 

Rev. Alex. W. Bealer was then called and did the work 
of a faithful pastor for a little more than two years, when 
he resigned to take charge of the church at Cartersville, 
Ga. This earnest minister was succeeded by Rev. J. C. 
Solomon, who faithfully led his people for a little more 
than three years. It was during his administration that 
the old church on Bell and Gilmer streets was sold and the 
lot on which the Woodward Avenue Baptist Church now 
stands was purchased. When the congregation left the old 
house the name of the church was changed from Fifth 
Baptist Church to Woodward Avenue Baptist Church. 

A temporary tabernacle was erected and used as a meet- 
ing-house until February, 1903. Under Dr. Solomon's 
pastorate the present beautiful church house was begun. 
The present incumbent, Rev. Thomas G. Davis, began 
his work as pastor November 15, 1902. The outlook for 
the future of the church is as bright as are the promises of 
God. With a membership of 400, the auditorium com- 
pleted, and a rapidly increasing population of the best 

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element of the middle classes, we can see the glorious 
dawn of a better day. With a well-organized and well- 
attended Sunday-school, a good B. Y. P. IT., and active 
Woman's Missionary Union, and other auxiliaries and 
committees necessary to a progressive Baptist church, we 
expect to take our place among the foremost and best :>f 
our sister churches. 



The Tabernacle. 

BY LETT G. BKOUGHTON. 

So far as I have been able to find there is no record of 
the exact date of the formation of the Third Baptist 
Church. It is a known fact, however, that it went out 
from the Second Baptist Church. The members purchased 
a lot on J ones avenue, just by the railroad, and afterward 
built a church house. For a number of years the organi- 
zation continued to worship there under the direction 
of different pastors. Some degree of success was attained. 

In the fall of 1898, under the leadership of Rev. Len 
G. Broughton, who had been pastor of the church about 
six months, it was decided to purchase the lots on the 
corner of Luckie and what is now Tabernacle Place, and to 
build a commodious tabernacle. There was some dissatis- 
faction with reference to this scheme and about 300 let- 
ters were granted members, who for the most part lived 
in the section of the old church. After the Tabernacle 
had been completed the Third Baptist Church changed 
its name to the Baptist Tabernacle of Atlanta. The 300 
members who had taken their letters formed themselves 
into what is known as the Jones Avenue Baptist Church. 
They purchased the property of the Third Baptist Church 
from the Tabernacle and have since worshipped there. 

The Tabernacle entered its new building March 1, 1899 
It had at that time about 350 members on the roll, and 
many of these were not available. Its Sunday-school 
numbered 135 pupils. 



The present membership of the church is 1,600. The 
enrollment of the home Sunday-school is 1,100, mission 
schools 400, making a total of 1,500 Sunday-school 
scholars. 

Besides its regular church work, the Tabernacle System 
embraces the Dormitory for Young Ladies, with special 
class work and Bible instruction. The Tabernacle Infirm- 
ary accommodates 35 patients, 20 nurses, besides super- 
intendent, head nurse, housekeeper and other help. A 
number of mission stations are conducted throughout the 
city. A School of Domestic Science is just now being 
organized, which will be in charge of a competent grad- 
uato m this department, who will take charge the first 
of February. Besides the pastor, there are the pastor's 
assistant, E. H. Peacock; two missionaries and Bible 
instructors, and a church stenographer. An annual en- 
tertainment and lecture course is provided by securing 
ten of the best attractions on various subjects that can 
be secured. In March every year there is held the Tab- 
ernacle Bible Conference and School of Methods. The best 
Bible expositors in the country are employed, and Chris- 
tian workers from all over the Southern States attend. 
An important feature of the Tabernacle plan is the opera- 
tion of its tent. Every spring, summer and fall the 
tent workers are actively engaged in various parts of the 
city in this work. Meetings are held every night. Hun- 
dreds of people are in this way brought to Christ. 

Since the church was first organized it has twice been 
improved and enlarged. To-day it is acknowledged to be 
the largest church auditorium in the South. It is simple 
and plain, though commodious and comfortable. 

The Baptist Tabernacle takes great pleasure in the 
above history and is very happy on this occasion to be 
able to return it to you as the mother church, and re- 
joices with you in the continuation of your labors which 
were begun a half century ago. We do not feel that we 
have done the best we could, but we trust as the years 



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go by that there shall be more and more to rejoice over, 
until we shall all meet in that upper and better world, 
where our jubilee will never end. 



Central Baptist Church. 

BY E. L. MOTLEY. 

In the year 1869 a mission was started in the western 
part of Atlanta under the direction of the Second Baptist 
Church. The movement was inspired mainly by Mr. 
John H. James, who generously provided a building for 
the mission. 

The Sunday-school, of which Dr. Stainback Wilson was 
the first superintendent, grew very rapidly, and in 1870 
the church, known as Central Baptist, was constituted. 
Among the charter members appear the names of the 
Stewarts, Stantons, Johnsons, Culbersons, U pshaws and 
Daniels. F. M. Daniel became the first pastor, and, 
after serving the church for several years, resigned to 
accept a call to the church at Cartersville. He was suc- 
ceeded by A. J. Beck in a pastorate of two years. 

In 18 78 a lot was secured and a new house of worship 
was erected at the corner of Peters and West Fair streets. 
F. M. Daniel was again called to the pastorate of the 
church, where he remained till the year 1884. Within 
the next twelve years the church enjoyed the pastoral 
services of E. Z. F. Golden, H. H. D. Stratton, W. H. 
Strickland, J. M. Brittain and D. W. Gwin. While the 
pastorates of these brethren were brief, they were pro- 
ductive of great good. 

In the early part of 1896 the church purchased a lot 
at the corner of Walker and Stonewall streets and built 
another house of worship at considerable cost. The build- 
ing was dedicated on the first Sunday in November of the 
same year, and beginning on that day, R. L. Motley served 
the church until the fall of 1900, when he resigned to 
accept a call to Augusta. He was succeeded by J. R. 

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Gunn, who remained with the church about eighteen 
months. S. R. C. Adams then served the church one 
year, resigning at the end of that time to become mis- 
sionary evangelist of the Baptist State Mission Board. 

Tinder the leadership of Mr. Gunn, the church sold 
the Walker street property, and purchased the Jewish 
Temple at the corner of Garnett and Forsyth streets. This 
step secured for the church a much better location than it 
had ever occupied before and also furnished it a splendid 
house of worship, well suited to the requirements of an 
aggressive, working congregation. In the early part of 
this year, Mr. Adams having resigned, the present pastor, 
R. L. Motley, was invited to become pastor of the church 
a second time. He accepted the call, and entered upon the 
work on the first of March. 

Our membership numbers about 350, nearly one-fourth 
of whom have been added within the last nine months. 
It has been the policy of the church for several years 
to keep the roll thoroughly revised by withdrawing fellow- 
ship from members who have drifted away and ignored 
their covenanted duties. Consequently the membership is 
much smaller than it would otherwise be. 

Besides supporting a pastor, the church employs a 
thoroughly-trained lady missionary, Miss Bessie Evangel 
Caltest, whose services are most valuable in every depart- 
ment of church work. In addition to the mid-week prayer 
meeting, Sunday-school and preaching services, the church 
regularly maintains the various missionary and benevolent 
societies usually found in a well-organized church. The 
Sunday-school is in a flourishing condition; S. P. Mon- 
crief and M. M. Anderson are the superintendents. 

The church is in full sympathy with the organized 
work of the denomination, and desires to have part in 
every worthy movement fostered by our great Baptist 
brotherhood. The membership is thoroughly united and 
the outlook is, in every way, encouraging ; and, at no dis- 

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tant day, the Central hopes to he numbered among the 
strongest and most prosperous churches. 

We fully recognize our indebtedness to the noble Sec- 
ond Baptist Church, in whose semi-centennial celebra- 
tion it is our good fortune to participate. 



Jones Avenue. 

This church, formerly called the Third Baptist, was 
organized by a colony from the Second Baptist Church on 
July 18, 1869, with Rev. T. J. Buchanan as the first pastor. 
Succeeding were Kev. G. W. Moore, for three years ; Rev. 
W. J. Spears, four; Rev. H. C. Hornady, five; H. D. 
Winchester, four; W. C. McCall, three; H. A. Mitchell, 
three; J. D. Winchester, four. Dr. L. G. Broughton was 
called in 1898. During his pastorate the membership di- 
vided, the majority following Dr. Broughton to a more 
central situation, establishing the Tabernacle, while 220 
members continued in the old building under the name of 
Jones Avenue Baptist Church. After the separation, C. 
W. Durham was pastor for one year, and was succeeded 
by W. J. Holtzclaw. Dr. Holtzclaw leaving in 1903, B. J. 
W. Graham acted as supply for six months, when the pres- 
ent pastor, Rev. W. L. Head was called. The present 
membership numbers 378, and the Sunday-school has an 
enrollment of nearly 300. 



The Temple Baptist Church. 

BY A. C. WARD, D.D. 

The Temple Baptist Church originated from a mis- 
sion of the Second Baptist Church. In 1873 Joseph M. 
Brown, A. C. Briscoe, Jno. T. McGuire, Robert S. Jack- 
son and J. T. Pendleton established a mission, known as 
the West Side Mission of the Second Baptist Church. 
Two years of faithful labor on the part of these zealous 
young Christians resulted in the organization of what wa3 

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called the Sixth Baptist Church. This organization oc- 
curred on the 21st day of March, 1875, Br. A. T. Spald- 
ing acting as moderator. Letters were presented by J. 
T. Pendleton, E. E. Jackson, Chas. Bailey, J. M. Crouch, 
also from Mrs. J. T. Pendleton, Isabella Pendleton, Dolen 
Stewart, Mary Stewart, L. A. Kendrick, Mary Kendrick, 
Fannie Evans, Mrs. M. A. Crouch, A. M. Dale, Lizzie 
Dale, Julia Myers and S. J. Garner. 

For seventeen years this church struggled for an ex- 
istence, during which time it had as pastors Eevs. C. 
Donaldson, I. S. Hogdin, V. C. Norcross, W. H. Dorsey, 
J. H. Weaver and E, L. Sisk. 

In July, 1892, the present pastor, A. C. Ward, D. D., 
was called to this work. The church then numbered 
about one hundred and seventy and was conducting its 
services in a tenement house, upon which there rested a 
heavy mortgage. 

To-day, after twelve years of arduous labor on the 
part of both pastor and people, the Temple Church wor- 
ships in a magnificent stone structure, is free from debt 
and has a membership of over four hundred. 

The name of the church has been changed from the 
Sixth to the Temple, and is an incorporated body, char- 
tered by the courts. Its officers consist of A. C. Ward, 
D.D., pastor; Jas. Kempton, clerk; M. E. Morris, treas- 
urer; together with an official board of deacons. 

Its Sunday-school has prospered under the manage- 
ment of W. M. Perryman, who for ten years past has 
been its faithful superintendent. 

The church is fully organized and is in close sympathy 
with all of the denominational interests. Its love for 
the dear old mother church can never be . expressed in 
words, and eternity alone can estimate the value of the 
work of the noble young founders. 



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Glenn Street Baptist Church. 

BY E. S. LUMPKIN*. 

About 1884 a mission was established by the Young 
Men's Missionary Society of the Second Baptist Church 
on Ira, near Eads street in the settlement then known as 
the East Tennessee Shops community. The organization 
was effected in a small storehouse. William A. John- 
son was elected by the Young Men's Society as its first 
superintendent, and carried on the work very successfully 
for nearly two years, when he resigned and was suc- 
ceeded as superintendent by E. S. Lumpkin. The work 
grew very rapidly and, through the generosity of G. B. 
and A. D. Adair, a beautiful lot was secured on the cor- 
ner of Ira and Eads streets for the purpose of erecting a 
permanent church. A frame building was erected at a 
cost of about $600. The Sunday-school moved in and 
the work was enlarged by adding to the services weekly 
prayer meetings and preaching on Sundays as often as a 
minister could be obtained. It was very difficult to get 
a sufficient number of Christian workers in this locality 
to teach the children, and to relieve this trouble the Young 
Men's Society employed an omnibus to carry teachers 
from the Second Baptist Church every Sunday. There 
were very few streets at this time in this locality and the 
place was difficult to reach, there being no cars or paved 
walks. 

A great deal of charity work was done among the poor, 
and after three or four years the mission grew to such 
proportions that the mother church decided to extend an 
arm for the purpose of receiving members. Through the 
generosity of the mother church also, a pastor was em- 
ployed and paid partly by the mission and partly by the 
Second Baptist Church and the Young Men's Missionary 
Society. Bev. W. B. Smith was the first pastor. He 
was popular and large crowds gathered to hear him preach, 
but unfortunately, by reason of unorthodox teaching, the 



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Church took away his license and right to preach, and 
later withdrew fellowship from him. This was unfortu- 
nate for the mission, as Mr. Smith had many followers 
in whom he had instilled his strange ideas, one of which 
was that the memhers of the church ought not to give 
anything for its support, but to contribute to charity only. 
Glenn Street still suffers from those teachings. The mis- 
sion had not been in its new house very long before it was 
burned down. It was immediately rebuilt, however, and 
the work grew until it was decided to add to its length. 
While this addition was being made a severe wind storm 
blew the house down, and thus it was destroyed a second 
time. Then it was thought best to move the church to a 
different locality, as the development of the community 
had to some extent cut off the streets and approaches to 
the old location. It was therefore changed to the present 
lot on the corner of Glenn and Smith streets, and with 
the aid of A. D. and G. B. Adair and of the members of 
the Young Men's Society the mission was able to erect 
a new frame building at an expense of about $2,000, which 
it has ever since occupied. The church now has a mem- 
bership of about 250, and a Sunday-school numbering 
about 125. 

During all these years quite a number have been sent 
out from the Young Men's Society and the Second Bap- 
tist Church to stimulate and carry on this work, promi- 
nent among whom are W. A. Johnson, E. S. Lumpkin, 
Henry Hillyer and W. B. McGarity. After the with- 
drawal of fellowship from Bev. W. B. Smith, Kev. J. I. 
Oxford, who had been developed in the mission, was 
elected its next pastor. He served the church for sev- 
eral years, and since his resignation Kev. V. C. Eorcross 
has been pastor. The members have been faithful and 
the church has proven a blessing to the community from 
the first and we trust that the future has in store still 
greater usefulness. 



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Capitol Avenue Baptist Church. 

BY JNO. E. BUIGGS. 

In the spring of 1880 the Young Men's Missionary So- 
ciety of the Second Baptist Church organized the McDon- 
ough Street Mission on Richardson street just east of 
McDonough street, which is now known as Capitol ave- 
nue. A small house was built at an expense of about 
$500 on a lot upon which had previously been conducted 
what was known to the older members of the church 
as the Olive Branch Mission, but which was not in any 
way connected with the new organization. None of the 
young men who began this mission had any knowledge of 
the former work that had been carried on at this place, 
and it was just by accident that they learned the church 
owned the lot. It was a great help to them, however, and 
they received additional aid in a small amount of money 
and an organ that had been preserved from the former 
mission by Miss Mattie Andrews. 

Z. T. Cody was elected first superintendent and E. S. 
Lumpkin its first secretary. Sunday-school was organ- 
ized in the afternoon, prayer meetings carried on one 
night each week, and preaching services as often as a 
preacher could be obtained. The work was maintained 
and carried on with great determination and persistent 
zeal for ten years, but without any material growth or 
substantial increase. At this time it was decided that 
no permanent work could be established at the present 
location, therefore through the aid of the Young Men's 
Society of the Second Baptist Church a lot 50x140 feet 
was purchased for the sum of $2,000 on the corner of 
Capitol and Georgia avenues. This lot stood upon a 
high bank, ten or twelve feet above the street. It was 
graded, however, and a small frame building built, at an 
expense of about $600, and on the first Sunday in July, 
1890, the mission moved into its new quarters. From the 
day it was located in this new place it began to grow, to 
take on strength and permanency, and in a short time it 



was necessary to organize regular church services. Through 
the aid of the Second Baptist Church, who agreed to 
assist in the expense, Eev. R. A. Suhlett, of South Caro- 
lina, was called as its first pastor about 1892 or 1893. 
An arm of the Second Baptist Church was extended to 
the mission and members of the Second Baptist Church 
were received there. Regular services, including com- 
munion and baptism, were carried on and the member- 
ship of the mission grew very rapidly. After two years 
Mr. Sublett resigned and Dr. A. T. Spalding became 
pastor. The growth of the church during his pastorate 
was very gratifying. The church building was enlarged 
and improved and the adjoining lot was purchased for the 
sum of $2,400. After three years Rev. 1ST. B. O'Kelly 
succeeded Dr. Spalding. 

About this time it was constituted into an independent 
church and soon became financially self-sustaining. On 
January 12, 1900, the church realizing that its rapid 
growth and the growth of the community demanded a 
better and more commodious building, undertook the erec- 
tion of a handsome brick edifice, which it has completed 
for $7,000, making the present cost of the church prop- 
erty, including the lot, approximately $17,500. In 1904 
Dr. O'Kelly resigned and the church called Rev. J. E. 
Briggs, who is its present pastor. 

During all these twenty-four years many different 
brethren have been sent out to aid and assist in this work 
by the Young Men's Society of the Second Baptist Church. 
Among the superintendents who labored here were Z. T. 
Cody, W. L. Woodson, J. F. Kempton, T. J. Day, E. S. 
Lumpkin and W. W. Orr. The last named, with Early 
Gillespie, transferred membership from the Second Church 
and became prominent in our work and development. 
Capitol Avenue is now in a flourishing condition, in the 
heart of one of the best settlements on the south side and 
promises to be one of the strong Baptist churches of the 
city. 



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McDonald Mission. 

In the month of March, 1903, the Young Men's So- 
ciety of the Second Baptist Church was urged to locate 
a mission in the neighborhood of Walker, Stonewall, 
Walnut and West Fair streets. The Central had moved, 
leaving a territory between Temple and West End without 
a convenient Baptist church. The Presbyterian church, 
located at the corner of Walnut and West Fair streets, de- 
sired to purchase the Central Baptist property, corner 
Stonewall and Walker streets, and offered to sell their own 
house. The Young Men's Missionary Society requested 
the mission committee of the Second Baptist Church to 
visit this field, and the result was that the Second Baptist 
Church, with the aid of the State Mission Board, pur- 
chased the Wallace Presbyterian Church on West Fair 
street at a cost of $1,500. All services, church and Sunday- 
school, have been held in this building since that time. 
The mission was named for the Rev. Henry McDonald, 
D.D., the former beloved pastor of the Second Baptist 
Church. 

On the fifth Sunday in March, 1903, the initiatory serv- 
ices were held, Walker Dunson presiding. Addresses 
were made by Rev. John E. White, T. J. Day, John M. 
Green and others. W. R. Callaway was elected superin- 
tendent and F. M. Dodd, assistant superintendent. The 
following Sunday, April 5, the Sunday-school was organ- 
ized with eight members present from the Second Baptist 
Church as teachers and sixteen from the field. Those 
present from the Second Church were Walker Dunson, 
T. J. Day, Z. F. Daniel, R. W. Thiot, Samuel Wilkinson, 
Misses Nettie and Bettie Walker, and Miss Annie Mae 
Henderson. Among those from the field who have been 
closely allied with the work were G. W. Evans, A. M. 
Dodd, D. S. A. Davis, R. W. Thiot, W. R, Callaway, 
W. W. Cope, 1ST. E. Putman, E, S. Owens, Mrs. Ann Dodd, 
Mrs. G. W. Evans, Mrs. J. E. Smith, Miss Rosa Bone, 
Mrs. R. E. Butler, Mrs. E. Walsh and Mrs. E. Sluvart. 



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It has been a great help to the Sunday-school to have such 
faithful teachers and much of the success of the work X3 
due to their untiring efforts. Through the kindness of 
Mrs. A. M. Dodd, an organ was placed in the church, to 
remain as long as needed. 

The first sermons preached at this place were on April 
5, at 11 o'clock by Eev. S. Y. Jamison, and at 8 o'clock 
at night by Eev. F. 0. McConnell. 

The Lord's Supper is observed monthly, and the com- 
munion set used in this service was presented by Mrs. 
Julian Field. Regular services have been held since the 
mission was organized. An arm of the Church has been 
extended and we have now 92 members, of whom 65 have 
joined by letter and 37 by profession of faith. Prayer 
meetings are on every Thursday night and the attendance 
is good. 

The pastors who have supplied this pulpit are Julian 
S. Rogers, H. W. Fancher, Marshall Lane and J. T. Bax- 
ter. Considering the length of time the work has been 
organized, it has developed faster and more auspiciously 
than any of our other fields. 



Woodward Avenue Mission. 

The Second Baptist Mission Sunday-school, situated 
on Woodward avenue, at the corner of Werner's avenue, 
near Connally street, was organized by the Young Men's 
Missionary Society of the Second Baptist Church on the 
second Sunday in September, 1902. Its officers were Dr. 
William E. Campbell, superintendent; Owens Johnson, 
assistant superintendent and secretary, and Weaver 
Smith, assistant secretary and treasurer. Its first teach- 
ers were William Lowe, G. R. Stovall, C. C. Wayne, R. 
W. Thiot, Samuel J. Wilkinson, F. M. Dodd, Mrs. M. A. 
Everett, Miss Sarah Westmoreland and Miss Kate Stock- 
ton. Fifty-two scholars were enrolled on that day. 



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The Sunday-school has been continued to this time with 
an average attendance of eighty-three, and an average col- 
lection of seventy-five cents per Sunday. 

John H. James has contributed materially to the equip- 
ment of the school. 

The present officers and teachers are Dr. William E. 
Campbell, superintendent ; Walter M. Wells, secretary and 
treasurer; Wm. Lowe, G. R. Stovall, Miss Mollie Wil- 
liamson, Mrs. Frances Hunt, Miss Willie King, Miss 
Emma Collins, Miss Frances Hunt and M. S. Flynt. 



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REMINISCENSES, LETTERS, ETC. 



Recollections of the First Charity Organization 
of this Church. 

BY MRS. LOUISA N. PITTMATT. 



The first Ladies' Aid Society of the Second Baptist 
Church was organized in 1859 with Mrs. Mary Boot as 
president. 

Among the first duties assumed by the members were 
the visiting and relieving of the needy and efforts to in- 
terest strangers in the Church. 

Miss Amelia Clark and Miss Louisa !N*eal were ap- 
pointed a committee to canvas half of the south side of 
the city. The only house which looked shabby enough 
to warrant their entering was on Fair street, and when the 
two ladies were admitted they found, instead of want, a 
roaring fire, a sack of flour and a quarter of beef hanging 
to a beam. The occupants of the house said that they 
needed no assistance, and promised to attend services at 
the Church, which promise they kept. 

In 1860, Mr. James Clark, entirely unsolicited, con- 
tributed five hundred dollars, with which funds a church 
bell was bought ; and to-day it hangs in our steeple. 

In 1864, just before the siege of Atlanta, the State 
Convention met in this city, and at that time the funds 
of the society were turned over to the convention, and 
our members never afterwards reassembled. 

Letter from Mrs. M. E. Bomar. 

The Second Baptist Church Was organized in 1854, 
with a membership of less than twenty. All business 
meetings were held at the home of Dr. B. F. Bomar, 
one of the two deacons; Mr. I. 0. McDaniel being the 
other one. At present there are three generations of 
Deacon Bomar's family members of this Church — his 
wife, daughter and two grandchildren. 

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The house of worship cost between twenty and thirty 
thousand dollars and was the first brick church in the 
city. It was also the first one to be heated by steam and 
to have a baptistry inside the building. This last excited 
much interest and curiosity as it was something new for 
this part of the country. Mr. Bowman was the architect 
and builder. 

The basement was finished as soon as possible that we 
might worship under our own vine and fig-tree. In the 
summer of 1857, before the remainder of the building 
was completed, a sudden storm took the tin roof off. It 
was not long, however, after this that the building was 
finished and dedicated; Dr. Crawford, I think, preaching 
the sermon. But before this our first pastor, Mr. Irwin, 
left us after a service of six months. 

The first Sunday-school was organized in the basement, 
with a membership of perhaps fifty. The only teacher, 
whose name I can now recall, was Mrs. Haygood, wife of 
Rev. Frank Haygood. She had a class of four little 
girls, all of whom were later baptized at the same time by 
Mr. J ohn Clark. Their names were Etta Bullard, Mattie 
Dunn, Maria Myers, and Amie Bomar; also at the same 
time Ira McDaniel, a brother of Governor Henry Mc- 
Daniel. 

The choir was composed of the best voices of the con- 
gregation, led by Mrs. West. After Mr. Irwin left Mr. 
T. U. Wilkes served for a short time, then Mr. John Clarke, 
all good men and true. 

Just about this time there was added to the Church 
quite a number of families possessed of means and cul- 
ture, the Clarkes, Roots, Neals, Chisholms and others. 

Dr. Brantley came next as pastor, staying until the city 
was besieged by Sherman. At this time the Church was 
filled with goods and furniture, and, strange to say, was 
not touched by a shell. When Sherman took possession 
of the city it was said that it was only through the in- 
fluence of the Catholic priest, Father O'Reilly, that the 

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Church was saved from the flames. After the War our 
first choice for pastor was again Dr. Brantley, then in 
Augusta. For reasons unknown to me it was impossible 
for him to come for several months. During this inter- 
val Dr. Tucker, afterwards Chancellor of the State Uni- 
versity, served. 

Our next pastors, Dr. Spalding, Dr. McDonald and 
Dr. White, are, of course, known to all. 

S. E. Bomab. 

Letter from T. B. Vesey. 

West Point, Miss., Nov. 25, 1904. 
Rev. John E. White, Atlanta, Ga. 

Dear Brother : Your letter and enclosed program of 
the Semi-Centennial Celebration of the Second Church 
has reached me. 

I am truly grateful that I have been spared to send 
you a word of greeting for an occasion which is of sacred 
interest to me, and which, I know will be most joyful and 
profitable to the Church which commenced her great work 
fifty years ago. 

As I contributed my humble share as one of the eighteen 
who commenced the work of this Church, a half -century 
since, possibly no one rejoices more than I, when I learn 
of the great work which the Church has accomplished 
during the passing years. How rich and full have been 
the blessings of our God, upon the work of our hands! 
To yourself and to the brothers and sisters of the Church 
I send my heartiest "God bless you " It gives me some 
regret to know that of the eighteen, who were the charter 
members of the Church, I am the only surviving male 
member. How well do I remember Sister Lipham, Breth- 
ren I. O. and P. C. McDaniel, B. P. Bomar, P. H. Cole- 
man and others who were my companions in this blessed 



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labor. What a gathering it will be when we reach our 
Father's house. 

I am now a member of the First Baptist Church of 
West Point, Miss. My health is good and I am still 
active in my Master's work. 

Profoundly thankful for what the dear old Church has 
accomplished, for the blessings God has given her and 
praying that she may yet honor her Lord and Master 
more and more, I am, 

Most fraternally yours, 

T. B. Vesey. 



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THE EARLY RECORDS OF THE SECOND BAPTIST 

CHURCH. 



BY JUDGE GEORGE HILEYER. 



The Second Baptist Church has from the beginning stood 
for church order, adherence to Scripture, and Baptist 
usage. This is well illustrated in the record made when 
the church was "constituted." We indulge a feeling of 
veneration for those solemn ceremonies and for the good 
men and women who took part in them. We here copy and 
publish that record literally, from the Book of Minutes, 
to wit : 

Report of the Committee of First Baptist Church 
on the Subject of a Second Church. 

Atlanta, Ga., July 12, 1854. 

The committee to whom the subject of selecting a site 
for a Second Baptist Church was referred, report that they 
have failed to come to any definite agreement as to a 
suitable site, or as to the propriety of purchasing a lot 
under all the existing circumstances. 

The committee, however, heartily concur in the opinion 
that the object of establishing a Second Baptist Chur.ch 
in this city is desirable, and that the great interests of our 
Lord and Saviour's kingdom might thereby be promoted. 

(To succeed in erecting a second church building will be 
difficult in the opinion of the committee unless a second 
church be constituted as a nucleus for definite and vigorous 
action. They feel confident that a church thus constituted 
with a definite object in view could effect more in reference 
to the object proposed than the whole church as it now is, 
can ever do. They therefore recommend the church to 
grant letters of dismission to such members as may be will- 
ing to make the venture in the fear of the Lord, to effect 
this desirable end. 

As our church is now harmonious in feeling, and all 



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agree, so far as the committee knows as to the propriety 
of a second Baptist church interest in this city, they can 
but feel assured that should a second church be constituted 
as above recommended, each church would have the sym- 
pathies and prayers of the other, and that they would act 
in harmony as to the general interests of Christ's Kingdom. 
All of which is respectfully submitted. 

Samuel Bryant, Chairman. 
The above report was received and adopted by the First 
Baptist Church in Conference. 

Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 20, 1854. 
To the Atlanta Baptist Church: 

We, the undersigned members of this church, believing 
in the propriety of the recommendation contained in the 
report just adopted, have, in the fear of the Lord, deter- 
mined to make the venture to carry out said recommenda- 
tion. We therefore ask for letters of dismission, with that 
special object in view. In thus taking leave of brethren 
with whom we have been associated, some for years, others 
for a shorter time, we can but feel emotion. 

The honest hope of promoting in a greater degree the 
interests of our Lord and Saviour's kingdom, reconciles us 
to enter upon the arduous duties before us. We will, we 
must, indulge the hope that mutual good feeling and 
mutual co-operation will characterize all. 

May mutual prayers for mutual blessings ascend to the 
Throne of God. 

(Signed.) P. E. McDaniel. 

B. F. Bomar. 
Sarah E. L. Bomar. 
Iea 0. McDaniel. 
Bebecca J. McDaniel. 
Nancy B. McDaniel. 
Caroline J. McDaniel. 
John M. Meyer. 
St. Thos. B. Vesey. 
Mrs. F. A. Lipham. 



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Articles of Faith. 

We being called, as we trust, by the grace of God, do, in 
the name of the Lord Jesus Christ voluntarily and jointly 
separate ourselves from the world and give ourselves to the 
Lord, who has promised to receive such and be their God 7 
holding ourselves no longer our own. 

We also voluntarily and mutually give ourselves to one 
another and receive one another in the Lord, meaning 
thereby to become one body, jointly to exist and jointly to 
act in the bonds arid rules of the gospel. Each esteeming 
himself a member of a spiritual body, accountable to it, 
subject to its control, and in no wise separable therefrom 
unless consent be first had, or unreasonably refused. 

We also voluntarily and jointly engage, the Lord enabling, 
to keep the faith that was once delivered to the saints, 
which we believe includes the following sublime and im- 
portant doctrines, all of which are contained in the Old 
and JSTew Testament. 

The being of a God. 

The Trinity of persons in the God-head, the Father, Son 
and Holy Ghost. 

The fall of Adam and the consequent total depravity of 
his posterity, and the impotency of natural men to do any- 
thing that is spiritually good. 

The everlasting love of God to his people. 

The doctrine of eternal and particular election. 

The covenant of grace, justification before God by faith, 
through the imputed righteousness of our Lord Jesus 
Christ, and pardon and reconciliation through His blood. 

Regeneration and sanctification by the influence and 
operation of the Holy Ghost. The final perseverance of 
the saints in grace. 

The resurrection of the just and the unjust, and a final 
judgment. 

That baptism by immersion in water is the only mode 
and believers the only subjects of baptism, and regular 
baptized believers the only subjects of church communion 
at the Lord's table allowed by the Holy Scriptures. 



That it is the duty of the church to commemorate the 
death and sufferings of our Lord and Saviour by the par- 
taking of the Lord's Supper until he comes again. 

Finally, we do voluntarily and jointly engage in the 
Lord's strength to do all things whatsoever the Lord com- 
mandeth us to do in obedience to Him that He may be with 
us always, particularly to take up our cross and follow 
the Lord in all examples. 

To forsake not the assembling of ourselves together to 
worship God. To attend our church conferences and 
endeavor to keep up a godly discipline that we may be 
blameless in the sight of God and men. That we may love 
as brethren and submit to one another in the Lord, and 
also to love, honor and maintain those who have the rule 
over us according to the Word of the Lord. This is the 
covenant which we now solemnly enter into in the fear of 
the Lord. ; 

In testimony and ratification whereof we hereunto sub- 
scribe our names. 

B. F. Bomar. 

I. 0. McDaniel. 

P. E. McDaniel. 

J. M. Myers. 

T. B. Veset. 

Jos. Oglesby. 

W. Richardson. 

F. H. Coleman. 

Mrs. Sarah E. L. Bomar. 

Mrs. W. B. McDaniel. 

Mrs. R. J. McDaniel. 

Mrs. B. Myers. 

Mrs. Frances Lipham. 

Mrs. M. Oglesby. 

Mrs. E. Richardson. 

Mrs. A. Wells. 

Mrs. Mary Bullard. 

Mrs. G. J. McDaniel. 

Mrs. E. Shurburn. 



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Constitution of the Second Baptist Church. 

By invitation of the brethren and ; sisters whose names 
appear below the Articles of Faith, a presbytery convened 
with them in the house of the First Baptist Church in the 
city of Atlanta on Friday evening the first of September, 
1854, to organize them into a regular gospel church. 

Elder Jesse H. Campbell was appointed moderator and 
Wm. H. Bobert, clerk of the presbytery or council. The let- 
ters of the applicants were read and approved. Sermon 
and questions were by Elder Jesse H. Campbell. Articles 
of Faith were read and approved. Constitution Prayer 
by Elder T. S. Allen. The hand of fellowship was given 
by the presbytery and by the brethren and they were duly 
pronounced by the Moderator The Second Baptist Church 
of Atlanta. The presbytery consisted of J. H. Campbell, 
Moderator; W. H. Bobert, clerk, T. S. Allen, F. Maddox, 
S. Mayfield Bryant, J. H. Weaver, Wm. H. Haslett. 

Thus did this church come into being, according to the 
simple faith of the Baptists, without any hierarchy or 
liturgy or rubric, and without any human inventions; 
acknowledging no head but the Lord Jesus, and holding 
the Scriptures to be the only rule of faith and practice. 
We offer the above record as a precedent, handed down 
from the fathers for good Baptist usage, in "constituting" 
a new church according to the Word of God. 



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THE PASTOR AND DEACONS OF THE SECOND 
BAPTIST CHURCH. 

Baptists believe that the scriptural officers of the 
Church, according to K~ew Testament faith and practice, 
are the pastor and deacons. Brief sketches of these officers 
are here presented: 

The Pastor. 

Rev. John E. White was born near Raleigh, North 
Carolina, December 19, 1868. His father, Rev. James 
M. White, was a gallant officer of Hampton's Legion of 
the Confederate Army, and his mother was the daughter 
of Rev. John F. Ellington. The subject of this sketch 
was the oldest son of these two godly parents. 

He entered Wake Forest College, W. C, September, 
1886, and after pursuing the course of four years, was 
graduated with the A.B. degree in 1890 with college hon- 
ors. He had fitted himself for the practice of law, but in 
1891, while a teacher at Mars Hill College in the moun- 
tains of western North Carolina, he gave himself up to 
God's leading and began to preach the gospel. He was soon 
called into prominent service. Before his ordination in 
1892 he succeeded Dr. Henry W. Battle as pastor of the 
First Baptist Church, Wilson, 1ST. C. From this pas- 
torate he went to the church at Edenton, N. C, in 1893. 
In 1895 he was unanimously elected State Mission Secre- 
tary by the North Carolina Baptist State Convention at 
Greensboro, 2sT. C, as successor to the distinguished Dr. 
Columbus Durham. Under his leadership the State mis- 
sion work more than doubled in the five years of his .in- 
cumbency. In 1900 he was called to the pastorate of the 
Second Baptist Church, Atlanta, to succeed Dr. Henry 
McDonald. He entered upon his work with this Church 
January 1, 1901. 

The four years of Dr. White's pastorate, in Atlanta, 
have been marked by signal success. 





Deacons of the Second Baptist Church. 

1. G. B. Adair. 4. E. H. Thornton. 

2. A. D. Adair. 5. Henry Htllyer. 

3. T. J. Day. 6. George Hillyer. 

7. J. T. Pendleton. 



The congregations have become among the largest in the 
city, 442 new members have been added to the member- 
ship, a debt of $35,000 on the church building has been 
paid and the influence of the Second Baptist Church 
strengthened in the city and State. 

Dr. White is president of the Mission Board of the 
Georgia Baptist State Convention, a member of the Home 
Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention and 
chairman of its committees on work among the negroes 
and mountain schools and missions, a trustee of the South- 
ern Baptist Theological Seminary, Monroe College and 
Atlanta Baptist College. He is chairman of the Atlanta 
Baptist City Mission League and of the Committee on 
Maintainance and Support of the Georgia Baptist Or- 
phans' Home at Hapeville, Georgia. 

The Deacons. 

Augustus D. Adair has been a member of the Second 
Baptist Church for thirty-eight years. Coming to Atlanta 
in 1858 he brought a letter from the Tallasseehatchie 
Church, Talladega County, Ala., his native State. The 
city had a population of only 7,000 when he commenced 
business with the old firm of Anderson, Adair & Co. 
During the War he was attached to the escort of that 
famous leader, Gen. N. B. Forrest, and took part in many 
battles, being once captured and tried as a spy. He was 
married to Miss Octavia Hammond, a daughter of Judge 
Dennis F. Hammond, in January, 1868. A staunch 
Baptist, Mr. Adair has always been a zealous and earnest 
worker in his own Church and in the denomination. He 
has been a member of the Home Mission Board of the 
Southern Baptist Convention for twenty-five years, is a 
member of the State Board of Missions and was presi- 
dent of this body. He has been for a long time chair- 
man of the Board of Deacons and of the Finance Com- 
mittee of the Church. He contributed $9,000 to the 
new church building. "No one among us is more esteemed 
for liberality, kindly spirit and faithfulness to duty. 

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Judge John T. Pendleton was born in Christian 
County, Kentucky, March 24, 1845. He was educated 
at Bethel CoHege in that State, and at sixteen years of age 
he enlisted in the First Kentucky Cavalry. He was with 
his regiment in many of the important battles fought by 
the Western Army and in its celebrated charge against 
the Federal line of infantry at the battle of Perryville. 
He served under General Forrest during the greater part 
of the War, but was with General Wheeler in 1862. After 
the Battle of Missionary Ridge he was captured and con- 
fined in the Federal prison at Fort Delaware until peace 
was declared. 

He attended the session of 1867-68 of the Louisville 
Law School and the session of 1868-69 of the Law Depart- 
ment of Washington and Lee University, and delivered 
the valedictory address for the large law class of that 
session, which was mentioned by the New York World in 
its report of the commencement exercises, as one of the 
notable addresses of the week. Judge Pendleton was or- 
dained a deacon in 1887, and has always been active in 
church work. He has been twice superintendent of the 
Sunday-school, twice treasurer of the Church and for 
twenty-five years teacher of the Bible class of the school. 
He has been president of the State Mission Board and is 
la member of the Home Mission Board of the Southern 
Baptist Convention. Twice auditor, and assistant city 
attorney and for four years judge of the recorder's court, 
he has been a leader in the affairs of his city as well as 
his Church. 

Judge George Hielyeb. was born in Clarke County, 
Georgia, March 17, 1835, and graduated at Mercer Univer- 
sity in the class of 1854. He was admitted to the bar in 
February, 1855, and practiced law in the courts of the 
Western Circuit until the War. Was a member of the 
Legislature of 1857-58 and chief clerk of the House of 
Representatives in 1859-60. Carried the first company — 
"Hillyer's Rifles"— from Walton County to the War. 



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in June, 1861. He participated in many battles of the War, 
and was in command of his regiment at Gettysburg where 
he lost over 70 per cent, of the men carried into action. 
He was also in the siege of Charleston, and between 
that date and the surrender, he served the State as 
auditor of the old Western & Atlantic Railroad and 
as major commanding a battalion of State troops. Judge 
Hillyer was a member of the State Senate 1870-74. 
Was judge of the Superior Courts of the Atlanta and 
Stone Mountain Circuit from 1877 to 1883 ; was mayor 
of Atlanta 1885-86. Since then he has held no public 
office except the laborious but non-salaried one of water 
commissioner, most of the time as president of the board. 

Judge Hillyer was baptized while a student at Mercer, 
September 15, 1850, and joined the Second Baptist 
Church by letter 1867. He has been for more than twenty 
years a member of the Home Mission Board of the South- 
ern Baptist Convention, and has long been prominent in 
the denominational conventions and associations. 

"E. H. Thoenton was born in Clay County, Georgia, 
May 31, 1848, and joined New Hope Baptist Church 
in 1858. He served with Pruden's Battery of Georgia 
in Johnston's army 1864-65, though barely seventeen years 
old when the War closed. Coming to Atlanta in 1871 his 
first business was that of bookkeeper for the Georgia 
Railroad, motive-power department, until 1876, when he 
engaged in the book and stationery business under the 
firm name of Lynch & Thornton. He was one of the three 
who organized the Neal Loan & Banking Co. in 1887. 
Elected cashier, he served in this capacity until 1891, when 
he succeeded Mr. T. B. Eeal as president, which position 
he now occupies. 

Mr. Thornton joined the Second Baptist Church by let- 
ter in 1874; was made deacon in 1899. He is one of the 
assistant superintendents of the Sunday-school, president 
of the Atlanta Y. M. CL A., and is also trustee from this 
district of the Confederate Soldiers' Home oi Georgia. 



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George S. Lowndes was born in Yanceyvilie, N". C, in 
1847, and was reared there. He joined the Baptist church 
at this place in 186.5. Moving to Atlanta, Ga., in 1869, 
he brought his letter and placed it in the Second Bap- 
tist Church, where he has remained a member to the 
present date. He acted as secretary of the Sunday-school 
for a number of years. As a member of the Building 
Committee for erecting the new church he filled a most 
important position. As chairman of the Sub-committee 
he looked after the details and general construction of this 
great work. Mr. Lowndes is prominently identified with 
the business interests of Atlanta and is the owner of one 
of the large office buildings of the city, which bears his 
name. 

Marshall Mendenhall Welch was born and reared 
on a farm in Guilford County, North Carolina. His 
father was an honored Baptist deacon and his mother an 
orthodox Friend (Quaker). 

At the age of twenty-one Mr. Welch went to Richmond, 
Va., as Southern traveling agent for the Pennsylvania 
Railroad. For a number of years after he occupied po- 
sitions in railroad service with offices in various South- 
ern cities. Later he became secretary of the Atlanta 
Chamber of Commerce, and for some time was engaged 
in real estate business. During the last ten years, 
he has been Office Secretary of the Home Mission 
Board of the Southern Baptist Convention. He is a 
member of the Executive Committee of the Stone Moun- 
tain Association, and has served the public in various 
official capacities, being at this time a member of the 
City Executive Committee and vice-president of the 
Board of Water Commissioners of the City of Atlanta. 

On January 3, 1881, Mr. Welch married Margaret, 
daughter of Dr. Henry McDonald, at that time pastor of 
the Second Baptist Church, Richmond, Va. 

A. C. Briscoe joined the Second Baptist Church, At- 
lanta, Ga., when sixteen years of age. In 1870 he was made 



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librarian of the Sunday-school, and in 1871 was elected 
secretary and treasurer. In January, 1872, he became 
superintendent of the Sunday-school, in his nineteenth 
year. With the exception of five or six years, he has 
served in this capacity, continuously since 1883. Was 
elected deacon of the Second Baptist Church in 1876. 
For several years he was secretary of the Railroad Com- 
mission of the State and is the founder and president of 
the Southern Shorthand & Business University. 

G. B. Adair, the son of Captain James and Sarah 
Adair, was born in Talledega County, Alabama. He 
joined the Tallasseehatchie Baptist Church at the age of 
fifteen. At twenty-one he entered the Army of Northern 
Virginia, fought through the entire four years of the 
War, and surrendered with Lee at Appomattox. Coming 
to Atlanta in 1865 he entered business with his brother, 
A. D. Adair, and has been a prominent factor in the up- 
building of Atlanta. In 1875 he married Miss Addie 
Lou, the daughter of Col. E. W. Marsh. He joined the 
Second Baptist Church in 1866 and in 1885 was ordained 
as deacon. For more than sixteen years he acted as 
Church treasurer and has always been faithful and consist- 
ent in attending to all duties laid upon him by his pastor 
and brethren. 

William Lowe was born in McDonough, Henry 
County, Georgia, October 6, 1838. 

Through the influence of a noble Christian Baptist 
mother, he was converted early in life, and joined the 
Baptist Church at McDonough. He received a common- 
school education, and when the War began, enlisted as a 
Confederate soldier and served in the Army of Virginia 
under General Robert E. Lee. After the close of the War, 
he went to Griffin to live, where he was married in 1866 to 
Miss Hattie Chapman, the eldest daughter of Mr. W. W. 
Chapman. The union was blessed with eleven children, 
eight of whom are living now. All joined the Baptist 
church while young and are living consistent Christian 



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lives. William Lowe came to Atlanta to live in 1867, and 
has resided here and in Fulton County since that date. He 
was ordained as deacon in 1884, and has served the Church 
for two years as treasurer. 

Henry Hillyeb was born at Athens, Ga., June 1, 
1846. After receiving his education at Athens and in 
Washington City he served as a private in the Ninth 
Eegiment Georgia State Guard of the Confederate Army. 

At the close of the War, Henry Hillyer studied law 
with his father in Athens, and was admitted to the bar 
at Watkinsville in August, 1866. Coming to Atlanta he 
went into partnership with Judge George Hillyer, and the 
firm of Hillyer & Brother was continued until 1892, with 
a large and remunerative practice, when Henry Hillyer 
retired from the law, since which time he has been occu- 
pied with his private business. 

He was twice a member of the Georgia Legislature from 
Fulton County, having been elected in 1876 and again in 
1880. He was president of the Young Men's Library 
in IS 76-77 and contributed much toward the successful 
establishment of that institution before its merger into 
the Carnegie Library. 

Henry Hillyer was baptized at Griffin, Ga., in 1865, 
joined this Church by letter in December, 1866, and was 
ordained a deacon in 1887. Has been active in Sunday- 
school and mission work, and was for nearly two years 
superintendent of the Ira Street Mission Sunday-school, 
now the Glenn Street Baptist Church. iSoon after he 
joined the Second Baptist Church he was elected clerk, 
which position he held two years, until 1869, when he 
was succeeded by S. P. Richards. He was for ten years, 
from 1886 to 1896, chairman of the State Executive Com- 
mittee of the Young Men's Christian Association. 

In 1879 he was married at Hartford, Conn., to Mrs. 
Eleanor Hurd Talcott. Mrs. Hillyer died in October, 
1902. One child was born to them — William Hurd Hill- 
yer, who is himself a member of this Church. 



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Thos. J. Day was born in Chattanooga, Tenn., on No- 
vember 15, 1862. His parents moved to Atlanta soon 
afterward and Mr. Day joined the Second Baptist Church 
in 1879. He received his education in the Atlanta pub- 
lic schools and graduated at the High School in 1878. 
In 1882 he married Miss Cornelia Chisholm and was or- 
dained as deacon in 1898. He was a member of the City 
Council for two years and is secretary of the trustees 
of the Carnegie Library. He is a prominent member 
of many secret orders, but has always been most 
active in church work. Connected with the Young 
Men's Missionary Society from its beginning, he was its 
first president, and has been superintendent of three of 
the mission Sunday-schools organized by this body. He 
has been chairman of the Board of Ushers for many years 
and is now a member of the Finance Committee and 
clerk of the Church. 

Walker Dunson, son of S. H. Dunson, was born in 
Troup County, Georgia, on the 8th day of July, 1861. 
He graduated with third honor from the University of 
Georgia in 1882, and began the practice of law in 
LaGrange, but in April, 1885, came to Atlanta to accept 
the office of chief clerk and deputy collector in the office of 
Thos. C. Crenshaw, Jr., Collector of Internal Kevenue 
for the District of Georgia. Five years afterward he en- 
tered the real estate business, forming a partnership with 
Thos. H. !Northen, which continued until the death of 
his partner, March 23, 1904. 

At the age of eighteen he joined the Western Baptist 
Church in Heard County, Georgia, transferred his mem- 
bership to the Second Baptist Church January 20, 1886, 
and was ordained as deacon on June 19, 1898. Since 
1893 he has been treasurer of the Home Mission Board of 
the Southern Baptist Convention and is also a member of 
the Advisory Board of the Orphans' Home. 



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February 19, 1889, he married Miss Willie McCarty, 
only daughter of Mrs. A. J". Moore, of Atlanta, and four 
children grace his home. 

Marion Lutheb Bbittain is the oldest son of Dr. J. M. 
and Ida Callaway Brittain. He is a graduate of Emory 
College, receiving honors in the English department and the 
classical prize, and is also a post-graduate student of the 
University of Chicago. A teacher in the Atlanta High 
School for several years, he is at present superintendent 
of the Fulton County system and teacher of pedagogy at 
Cox College. In 1889 he married Lettie, daughter of Dr. 
Henry McDonald. For three years he was president of the 
State B. Y. P. U., for two years Southern representative 
of the National Board of Directors of that body and is 
at present secretary of the Education Commission and 
member of the State Mission Board. For four years he 
has been one of the writers of the Sunday-school lessons 
for the denomination and is the author of "Introduction 
to Caesar" and "Methods of Sunday-school Work." 



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Deacons of the Second Baptist Church. 
1. William Lowe. 2. A. C. Briscoe. 

3. M. M. Welch. 4. G. S. Lowndes. 

5. Walker Dunson. 6. M. L. Brittaix. 



RULES OF ORDER, ETC. 



Teems of Membership. 

1. A public and acceptable profession o.i faith in 
Christ, in the presence of the church, and submission to 
the ordinance of baptism, are prerequisites to member- 
ship. 

2. Persons bringing letters of dismission from churches 
of the same faith and order are admitted to membership. 

3. When the case is such as to justify it persons may 
be admitted to membership upon the profession of their 
faith in Christ, and the production of suitable vouchers 
of baptism. 

Privileges of Members. 

The privileges of members are as follows: 

1. An equal suffrage in the decision of all questions, 
whether secular or religious. 

2. A reasonable portion for their support out of the 
funds of the church (when these funds will permit) in 
cases of indigence and want, not otherwise remediable, 
and a perfect equality of each one with all the rest, in all 
the advantages of the church, whether temporal or spir- 
itual. 

Public Worship. 

1. It is incumbent upon every member to contribute 
his or her quota towards the support of public worship; 
none can be excused from this, except from inability. 

2. The meeting house shall be opened, if possible, 
twice on each Lord's day, for public worship. 

3. In ordinary cases, the ordinance of the Lord's Sup- 
per shall be administered monthly; the ordinance of bap- 
tism as often as circumstances may require. 

4. The pastor of the church for the time being is em- 
powered to reprove and to correct, with due gravity and 

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meekness, any and all abuses, improprieties and other of- 
fenses against the decorum and sobriety of the house of 
God. 

5. It shall be the duty of all members of the church 
to attend all meetings of the church, whether for worship, 
ordinary or extraordinary business, and to be present at 
the Lord's table. 

6. It shall also be the duty of those members who pos- 
sess suitable qualifications to assist in the public services, 
and to render themselves useful in all departments of 
worship. 

Officers of the Church — Their Duties. 

1. It is the duty of the pastor truly and faithfully to 
preach and expound the Word of God; to take the gen- 
eral superintendence of the church, and to exercise in it 
the functions of a Euling Elder; to visit from house to 
house, and labor in work and doctrine; to instruct all 
classes ; to prevent, as far as possible, all schisms and di- 
visions among the members ; and to exercise a gracious 
discretion in building up the cause of Christ. 

2. The number of deacons shall be regulated accord- 
ing to the wants of the church. It is their duty to dis- 
tribute the bounty of the church among its poor members ; 
to serve at the Lord's table; to visit and to comfort the 
sick; to take a leading part in the instruction of the ig- 
norant, in reproving and correcting the unruly, in pre- 
serving as far as possible the peace and harmony of the 
church, and especially in taking care that absentees from 
the worship of the Lord's house be visited and admon- 
ished. To all of which, it may be added, they should be 
examples, both in public and in private, in spirituality, 
prayer and watchfulness. 

3. It is the duty of the clerk to keep a record of all 
the proceedings and decisions of the church. The rec- 
ords with which he is intrusted shall not be exposed to 
examination by persons unconnected with the church, ex- 
cept upon a resolution of the church. 

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[M utual Relations of the Membees. 
1. The members are to watch over each other with a 
discreet and affectionate care ; to prevent sin from resting 
upon one another; to use mutual admonitions and exhor- 
tations; to sympathize with each other in affliction, and 
to be kindly affectioned one toward another. 

Change of Membership. 

1. It is the duty of the members who remove their 
residence to some distant place, to seek and obtain let- 
ters of dismission to some church of the same faith and 
order, which may be more convenient. 

2. Letters of dismission may be granted on applica- 
tion, to members of this church in good standing; such 
letters to read, "When joined to any other church of like 
faith and order." 

3. Application for letters of dismission shall not op- 
erate to arrest disciplinary proceedings against the appli- 
cant, or prevent the institution of such proceedings, when 
reasonable grounds for them are brought to the knowledge 
of the church. 

License and Ordination. 

1. No member shall assume the office of a minister of 
the gospel without the approbation of the church. 

2. The pastor and deacons shall be a standing com- 
mittee, to have under their charge the cases of all candi- 
dates for license and ordination. 

3. A copy of the resolution of the church, certified by 
the clerk, shall always be deemed sufficient evidence of a 
license; and a certificate, signed by the officiating pres- 
bytery, shall be sufficient for ordination. 

Miscellaneous. 

1. This church recognizes the beneficial effects of as- 
sociations, as advisory councils and helps to general inter- 
course. 

2. This church acknowledges the duty of making con- 
tributions for the support of missions, of Bible, Tract 
and Educational Societies, and for the relief of the poor. 

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BY-LAWS. 

No. 1. The regular Conference of the church shall be 
held on the evening of Wednesday preceding the second 
Sunday of each month, at the house of worship, whereat 
all the business of the church must be transacted. 

No. 2. A special Conference may be called by the 
pastor for the reception of members, or their dismission 
by letter. 

No. 3. The presence of five members shall constitute 
a quorum for the transaction of business. 

No. 4. The pastor shall be ex-officio Moderator at the 
Conferences ; but any male member may be called by vote 
to preside. 

No. 5. The usually recognized parliamentary rules 
shall govern the conduct of business and debate at the 
Conference. 

No. 6. After the usual devotional exercises, the order 
of business shall be as follows : 

First. — The reception of new members. 

Second. — The reading and disposition of the minutes 
of the previous meeting. 

Third. — Granting letters of commendation and dismis- 
sion of members desiring to unite with other like churches. 

Fourth. — The disposition of the unfinished business of 
the preceding meeting. 

Fifth. — The reports, in their order, of committees pre- 
viously appointed. 

Sixth. — New business may be presented, and proper 
order taken thereon. 

No. 7. Elections for pastor, deacons, clerk, treasurer 
and organist shall be by ballot, and the time at which such 
elections shall occur must be appointed at the preceding 
regular Conference, and the majority of the votes cast shall 
be necessary to elect. 

No. 8. All standing committees which may be ap- 
pointed by the Conference shall report in writing at least 
once every three months the condition of the business in 
their charge. 

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No. 9. There may be a church choir if the majority 
of the Conference so directs — which choir shall be under 
the advisory direction of the pastor and deacons. 

No. 10. No officer of the church, nor any committee 
shall have the power to create any obligation of debt for 
the church, except for such purposes and in such manner 
as shall be authorized by the vote of the church acting in 
conformity with the provisions of the charter. 

No. 11. All votes taken in the Conference, other than 
by ballot, shall be taken by raising the hand, or by stand- 
ing, if called for by any member ; or the ayes and noes may 
be had on a demand sustained by one-fifth of the members 
present. 

By action of the church, November 16, 1904, sections 12 
to 17 of the old by-laws were repealed and the following 
adopted : 

No. 12. The Finance Committee of thirty is author- 
ized to select from its number an Executive Committee 
of five, whose duty it shall be to devise ways and means 
of inducing all members to become regular contributors 
to the expenses of the church, instead of renting pews to 
them, as heretofore, provided that the plans devised shall 
have the approval of the Finance Committee and Confer- 
ence. There shall be only one treasurer, who is to pay all 
bills and appropriations passed up by the church, upon the 
regular warrants prepared by this Executive Committee 
and upon its order. 

No. 13. A Collection Committee of three shall be 
appointed by the Finance Committee to take charge of all 
envelope and basket collections, make proper credits upon 
the church books, and transmit funds to treasurer taking 
receipts for same. 

No. 14. Four regular offerings shall be made during 
the year, as follows: 

(a) On first Sunday in January for pastor's salary and 
church expenses. 

(b) On first Sunday in March for City Missions. 

(c) On first Sunday in May for Orphans' Home, Indi- 
gent Ministers and Ministerial Education. 



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(d) On first Sunday in October for State, Home and 
Foreign Missions. 

No other collections are permitted without the approval 
of the church in order that members may know definitely 
what and when they are expected to contribute. 

With regard to the first of these — that is for the gen- 
eral expenses of the church — the envelope plan is hereby 
adopted and payments are to be made weekly, it being 
understood, however, that those who prefer, may pay 
monthly or quarterly in advance instead. 

No. 15. An auditor shall be appointed to pass upon 
the books and accounts of the treasurer and other officers 
of like character. 

No. 16. These officers shall be elected at the Decem- 
ber Conference of each year or as soon thereafter as prac- 
ticable. 

No. 17. The collections on Sunday nights and at the 
Lord's Supper shall be for the poor of the church; this, 
however, at the discretion of the deacons. 

No. 18. All by-laws in conflict with these resolutions 
are hereby repealed. 

No. 19. The pastor and deacons of the church shall 
have control of the church building; and no use shall be 
made thereof for other purposes than church worship, ex- 
cept upon leave had from a majority of them, or on the 
order of the Conference. 

No. 20. The salaries of the pastor, organist, sexton 
and other paid officers of this church shall be fixed at the 
December Conference in each year for the ensuing year; 
and if, in any case, the same shall be neglected at such 
December Conference, it shall be done at the next Confer- 
ence or at any Conference called for that purpose after 
one week's notice. Anything in any by-law of this church 
in conflict with this is hereby repealed. 

No. 21. Any of these By-Laws, Rules of Order, etc., 
may be changed by a majority vote of two successive Con- 
ferences. 



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COVENANT. 

Having been baptized upon profession of faith, and 
feeling it our indispensable duty to bold up our light in 
the world, we do solemnly covenant together before God 
that we will meet together for his worship and ordinances, 
on the first day of the week, and likewise that we will 
attend all of the stated appointments of this church, so 
far as Divine Providence permits; and that we will ex- 
tend a faithful watch over each other, according to the 
direction given by our Lord in the 18th chapter of Mat- 
thew, and in other parts of the ~New Testament, taking 
His Holy Word for the rule of our conduct, whether pub- 
lic or private. And we agree to use our influence, in 
every relation and station of life, to promote true piety 
at home and abroad; giving up ourselves and all that we 
have and are to the service of God without any known 
reserve ; humbly trusting in the merits of Christ alone for 
the pardon of all of our sins, and in the indwelling of His 
Holy Spirit, to enable us to preserve in holiness and 
righteousness, anto the coming of the Lord and Savior 
Jesus Christ : to whom be glory and power everlasting, 
Amen. 



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OFFICERS OF THE SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH. 



John E. White,, D.D., Pastor. 
Deacons. 



A. D. Adaik, Chairman. 
J. T. Pendleton, G. B. Adair, 

George Hillyer, 
George S. Lowndes, 
M. M. Welch, 
A. C. Briscoe, 
Henry Hillyer, 



Wm. Lowe, 
E. H. Thornton, 
Walker Dunson, 
T. J. Day, 
M. L. Brittain. 



T. J. Day, Clerk. 
E. H. Thornton, Treasurer. 
George S. Lowndes, Auditor. 

Finance Committee. 

Executive Board. 

E. J. Paxon, Chairman. 
John T. Pendleton, George S. Lowndes, 
E. L. Connally, M. L. Brittain, 

A. D. Adair, ex officio. 

Other Members. 

A. D. Adair, Chairman. 
J. T. Wright, Secretary. 



George Hillyer, 
Henry Hillyer, 
W. D. Ellis, 
John H. James, 
Wm. Lowe, 
T. J. Day, 
Walker Dunson, 
E. A. Brown, 
Walter K. Brown, 
Wm. S. Brown, 
Geo. Westmoreland, 



M. L. Roberts, 
Bartow Morgan, 
E. H. Thornton, 
M. M. Welch, 
W. E. Campbell, 
John Ashcraft, 
R. C. Black, 
Jno. S. Spalding, 
Henry R. Durand, 
Cwens Johnson, 
J. D. Wester, 



A. C. Briscoe. 
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Collection Committee. 

Henby Hiklyer, Chairman. 
W. F. Manby, Owens Johnson. 

Music Committee. 

Geoege West^l ^beland, Julian Field, 

J. D. Westeb. 



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MEETINGS. 



Sunday-school, 9 :30 a.m. 

Sunday Morning Service, 11:00 a.m. 

Sunday Evening Service, 7 :30 p.m. 

Young Men's Prayer Meeting, every Monday night 

Church Prayer Meeting, every Wednesday night. 

B. Y. P. TJ., every Friday night. 

Church Conference, Wednesday night before second 
Sunday in each month. 

Deacons' Meeting, Tuesday night before second Sunday 
in each month. 

Pastor's Kesidence 9 Crew Street 

Clerk's Eesidence .... 132 South Pryor Street 
Treasurer's Office . . . !Neal Loan & Banking Co. 



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ROLL OF THE CHURCH. 



Prepared by Walker Dunson. 



No church roll is perfect. Changes constantly take place. A 
roll correct to-day will not be next month. Please report any 
changes in name, residence, or any omissions to the church clerk. 

Abbott, Mrs. Susan R 121 E. Pine Street. 

Abbott, Miss Fannie 121 E. Pine Street 

Adair, A. D 94 Washington Street 

Adair, Mrs. A. D 94 Washington Street. 

Adair, Miss Babara 94 Washin^on Street 

Adair, A. D. Jr 94 Washington Street. 

Adair, G. B Highland Avenue. 

Adair, Mrs. G. B Highland Avenue. 

Adair, G. B. Jr Highland Avenue. 

Adair, Marsh Highland Avenue. 

Adair, Mrs. Sallie McBride 441 Peters Street 

Adair, Dr. R. B Piedmont Hotel. 

Adair, Mrs. R. B Piedmont Hotel. 

Allen, Bartow F Corner Hunter and King. 

Allen, Frank Clarksdale, Miss. 

Allen, Tinsley 50 Carnegie Place. 

Allen, J. R 47 Mangum Street. 

Allen, H. S 234 Woodward Avenue. 

Allen, W. D 234 Woodward Avenue. 

Allen, Earnest G 66 Davis Street 

Alsabrook, J. L 374 Pulliam Street. 

Alsabrook, Mrs. Annie 374 Pulliam Street 

Alsabrook, Miss Kate 374 Pulliam Street. 

Alston, Robt. H 77 Hood Street 

Anderson, Miss Daisy 222 E. Fair Street. 

Andrews, Ezra 289 S. Pryor Street. 

Andrews, Mrs. Fannie W 289 S. Pryor Street 

Andrews, Miss Mattie F 289 S. Pryor Street. 

Andrews, Mrs. Leontine Chisolm Peachtree Road. 

Andrews, Miss Bessie 238 Whitehall Street 

Apperson, James A 148 Logan Street 

Archer, Mrs. Nina N 

Armstrong, Mrs. Myra B 154 Washington Street 

Armstrong, Miss Laura 154 Washington Street 

Asbury, Mrs. Alice 

Ashcraft, Dr. J. E. (office) 823 Century Building. 



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Asbury, Horton 229 E. Hunter Street. 

Ashley, H. P 25-27 S. Forsyth Street. 

Atwater, Mrs. Delia T 15 Peachtree Place. 

Appling, B. J. (office) 67 S. Broad Street. 

Bacon, Sumner W 182 Crew Street. 

Bacon, Mrs. S. W 182 Crew Street. 

Bacon, Thos. (care S. W. Bacon) 182 Crew Street. 

Baird, Dr. Jas. B 105 Capitol Square. 

Barkesdale, C. E 92 Luckie Street. 

Barkesdale, Mrs. C. E 92 Luckie Street. 

Barker, B. S. (office) 36 E Alabama Street. 

Barkesdale, Robt. D. (care C. E. Barkesdale) . . . Dallas, Texas. 
Barkesdale, W. Asbury (care C. E. Barkesdale), Birmingham, Ala. 

Barrett, Edward D 104 Crew Street. 

Barrett, Walter G 104 Crew Street 

Barnes, Miss Eugenia Athens, Ga. 

Battle, Mrs. Susie Ella 329 E. Hunter Street. 

Battle, Miss Susie 1 329 E. Hunter Street. 

Basmajian, Edward 65 Bartow Street. 

Bealer, Mrs. Emily J 374 N. Jackson Street 

Beauchamp, Mrs. Susan 174 Ivy Street. 

Beauchamp, Miss Susie .... 1522 St. Charles St., New Orleans. 

Beck, Miss Mina 301 Capitol Avenue. 

Beerman, Henry C Oakland City. 

Bell, Mrs. P. H Panthersville, DeKalb County, Georgia. 

Belanger, Miss Allie 15 Little Street. 

Benson, Dr. Chas. F 186 S. Pryor Street 

Benson, Dr. Marion T 220 Capitol Avenue. 

Benson, W. W. (office) 17 N. Pryor Street. 

Benson, Miss Bertha (care of W. W.) . . . . 17 N. Pryor Street 

Bissin, Miss Charlotte 

Bird, Mrs. M. P Atlanta, Georgia. 

Black, R. C 222 Washington Street 

Black, Mrs. R. C 222 Washington Street. 

Black, Homer 222 Washington Street. 

Black, Mrs. Flora Abbott 443 Courtland Avenue. 

Blackburn, B. M 64 Currier Street. 

Blackburn, Mrs. Nellie 64 Currier Street 

Blackburn, Mrs. W. W 215 E. Fair Street. 

Blanton, H. S 206 S. Forsyth Street 

Black, Miss Kathleen 193 Washington Street. 

Bloodworth, T. H. P 68 Martin Street 

Bloodworth, Miss Frances 68 Martin Street 



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Bloodworth, Miss Bessie 68 Martin Street. 

Bolt, Miss Willie A Birmingham, Ala. 

Bomar, Mrs. Sarah E. L 557 Woodward Avenue. 

Bonnell, Mrs. Sarah B 65 Fraser Street. 

Bonn, Mrs. Laura Adair Point Lomar, California. 

Bowen, Mrs. Chas. H 2430 32d Avenue, Louisville, Ky. 

Borders, E. Darden 32 Wall Street. 

Boone, Charlie L 79 Trinity Avenue. 

Bostwick, Rufus E 

Boulineau, Mrs. A. G 16 Pulliam Street. 

Boulineau, Miss Alline 16 Pulliam Street. 

Boulineau, Miss Josie 16 Pulliam Street. 

Boyd, Mrs. Emma Lou Garrett 194 Washington Street. 

Boyd, Miss Sarah 116 S. Pryor Street. 

Boynton, Mrs. Mamie H. Jonesboro, Ga. 

Branch, J. E Equitable Building. 

Branch, Thomas B Equitable Building. 

Briscoe, A. C 10 E. North Avenue. 

Briscoe, Mrs. A. C 10 E. North Avenue. 

Briscoe, Miss Mary P 10 E. North Avenue. 

Briscoe, Miss Creagh Bell 10 E. North Avenue. 

Brittain, M. L 133 Capitol Avenue. 

Brittain, Mrs. M. L 133 Capitol Avenue. 

Brittain, McDonald 133 Capitol Avenue. 

Bradley, W. H. (watch care) 35 W. Peachtree Street. 

Brawner, Mrs. James N. 85 Luckie Street. 

Brockfield, Charles M 89 Trinity Avenue. 

Broomhead, Mrs. John S 464 Whitehall Street. 

Brooks, Mrs. Kena 58 Hood Street. 

Brown, Mrs. Gertrude C 238 E. Fair Street. 

Brown, Miss Sallie E 159 Washington Street. 

Brown, Elijah A 38 Spruce Street. 

Brown, Julius L 187 Washington Street. 

Brown, Mrs. Julius L 187 Washington Street. 

Brown, Joseph M Marietta, Ga. 

Brown, Mrs. Joseph M Marietta, Ga. 

Brown, C. 1 325 S. Pryor Street. 

Brown, Walter R 325 S. Pryor Street. 

Brown, W. S 325 S. Pryor Street. 

Brown, Miss Cora 325 S. Pryor Street. 

Brown, W. T 33 E. Georgia Avenue. 

Brunner, Mrs. Ella B 23 W. Peachtree Street. 

Bucher, Mrs. Ethel Decatur, Georgia. 

Bush, Mrs. Myrtis 287 Capitol Avenue. 



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Bush, Miss Bessie 287 Capitol Avenue. 

Bush, Guy L 287 Capitol Avenue. 

Bush, Miss Edna 287 Capitol Avenue. 

Bush, Mrs. Minnie 385 Pulliam Street. 

Bush, Root. P. (office) 409 Equitable Building. 

Butt, Jessie M College Park. 

Butt, Mrs. Rebecca B College Park. 

Butt, Edmund C College Park. 

Calhoun, J. C 453 E. Fair Street 

Calhoun, Mrs. Emma 453 E. Fair Street 

Callaway, Miss Abbie 182 Rawson Street 

Callaway, Miss Sallie T 179 S. Pryor Street 

Callaway, W. R 249 Formwalt Street 

Callaway, Mrs. Mamie 249 Formwalt Street 

Callaway, Miss Leila 

Camp, Felix (office) 2d floor Empire Building. 

Campbell, Dr. Wm. E 436 Peachtree Street 

Campbell, Mrs. Wm. E 436 Peachtree Street 

Campbell, Wm. E. Jr 436 Peachtree Street 

Campbell, Mrs. L. P 189 Whitehall Street 

Campbell, Miss Jessie 189 Whitehall Street. 

Campbell, Mrs. Alabama Adair 104 Crew Street. 

Carpenter, Dr. L. D 194 Rawson Street. 

Carpenter, Mrs. L. D 194 Rawson Street. 

Cassin, Mrs. Minnie Hillyer 5 Crew Street. 

Cassin, Miss Emily H 5 Crew Street. 

Cate, G. W 42 Crew Street. 

Cate, Miss Bertha 42 Crew Street. 

Catlett, F. M 655 Washington Street 

Catlett, Mrs. F. M 655 Washington Street. 

Catlett, Miss Nellie 655 Washington Street. 

Chambers, Miss Lily 271 E. Fair Street. 

Chamberlin, C. C 433 Woodward Avenue. 

Chamberlin, Mrs. Aug. T 433 Woodward Avenue. 

Chapman, Miss H. C 62 Fraser Street. 

Chapman, Miss M. A 62 Fraser Street. 

Chase, Mrs. Walter S 234 Central Park, West N. Y. 

Cheshire, Mrs. Hattie Andrews Aiken, S. C. 

Childs, Mrs. Susan Pittman 74 E. Mitchell Street. 

Chisolm, Mrs. Ellen 132 S. Pryor Street 

Chisolm, Mrs. Eppie 132 S. Pryor Street 

Christian, Wm. M 97 Capitol Avenue. 

Chorin, E. A 22 Lee Street 

Clark, B. R 60 Grant Street 



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<31ark, Mrs. B. R 60 Grant Street 

Clarke, Miss Eugenia E 36 E. North Avenue. 

Cole, Miss Mary 36 E. North Avenue. 

Clay, Mrs. Emma 113 Pulliam Street. 

Clay, Miss Ruby 113 Pulliam Street. 

Close, William E 74 Capitol Avenue. 

Close, Mrs. W. 74 Capitol Avenue. 

Clyburn, Wm 27 Markham Street. 

Coker, Mrs. Lizzie Hillyer 95 Washington Street. 

Cole, Howard S 68 Fulton Street. 

Cole, Mrs. Evelyn . . . .619 Kossuth Street, LaFayette, Ind. 

Collins, Miss Emma 483 Capitol Avenue. 

Connally, Dr. E. L 63 Ashby Street. 

Connally, Mrs. E. L 53 Ashby Street. 

Connally, Miss Sallie 53 Ashby Street. 

Connally, Miss Frances 53 Ashby Street. 

Connally, Thomas 53 Ashby Street. 

Coles, Henry 

Collins, Dr. T. B 

Coleman, D. P Mobile, Ala. 

Coleman, Mrs. Fannie Mobile, Ala. 

Cooper, Walter G. (office) City Hall. 

Courtney, Mrs. Faith Russell 126 Crew Street. 

Cox, Miss Maggie Allen 144 Crew Street. 

Cozart, Miss Myrtle 21 Orme Street. 

Craig, Mrs. A. A 214 Glennwood Avenue. 

Crawford, Mrs. Anna C 417 Houston Street. 

Crawford, Jas. J. (office) 141 Central Avenue. 

Crawford, Miss Edna 143 Kelly Street. 

Credelle, J. M 464 E. Fair Street. 

Crouch, J. M 123 Nelson Street. 

Crouch, Mrs. N. A 123 Nelson Street. 

Crummey, E. C. 381 E. Fair Street. 

Crush, Miss N. C 97 Capitol Square. 

Crusselle, Miss Cecilia College Park. 

Cunningham, Mrs. Cornelia 83 Ashby Street. 

Cunningham, Robt. F 443 E. Fair Street. 

Curtis, Mrs. E. A Nashville, Tenn. 

Cuthbert, Miss Minnie 



Daniel, E. O 

Daniel, Zach F. ... 
Darden, Willie .... 
Darrington, D. P. . . 
Darrington, Mrs. D. P. 



.... Hapeville, Ga. 
. . 6 Decatur Street. 
296 Whitehall Street. 
.167 Central Avenue. 
. 167 Central Avenue. 



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Davis, W. S 53 Crew Street. 

Davis, Mrs. W. S 53 Crew Street. 

Davi3, Miss Pearl 318 Woodward Avenue. 

Davenport, Miss Bennie B 76 Washington Street. 

Davidson, Mrs. Sarah 281 Rawson Street. 

Day, S. W 149 Oakland Avenue. 

Day, Mrs. S. W 149 Oakland Avenue. 

Day, Albert L 151 Oakland Avenue. 

Da-, Thos. J 132 S. Pryor Street. 

Day, Mrs. Thos. J 132 S. Pryor Street. 

Day, Miss Ninetta 132 S. Pryor Street. 

Day, Miss Leontine 132 S. Pryor Street. 

Day, Thos. J. Jr 132 S. Pryor Street 

Dennis, Miss Clara 

Derrick, Mrs. Emily T 148 Trinity Avenue 

Dodd, Miss Margie Fairburn, Ga. 

Dodd, F. M. (44 Wall Street) 106 Trinity Avenue. 

Dorn, A. W 213 S. Pryor Street. 

Douthit, Mrs. Elizabeth 89 Capitol Avenue. 

Douthit, Miss Katherine 89 Capitol Avenue. 

Douthit, Max H 89 Capitol Avenue. 

Dozier, G. P 69 Nelson Street. 

Dozier, Mrs. Undine 69 Nelson Street. 

Drewry, Mrs. Myrtle 204 Whitehall Street. 

Drewry, J. H 34 W. Alabama Street. 

Duncan, Mrs. Mary E. 248 Peachtree Street. 

Duncan, Miss Annie 248 Peachtree Street. 

Duncan, Perry 248 Peachtree Street. 

Duncan, Joseph H 429 Woodward Avenue. 

Dunson, Walker 195 Washington Street. 

Dunson, Mrs. Walker 195 Washington Street. 

Dunson, Miss Edith 195 Washington Street. 

Dunson, Miss Elizabeth 195 Washington Street. 

Dunson, Miss Gladys 195 Washington Street. 

Durand, Henry R 446 Washington Street. 

Durdin, Wm 296 Whitehall Street. 

Edwards, Mrs. Kate R 370 S. Pryor Street. 

Eakin, Miss Margaret 215 E. Fair Street. 

Eakin, Miss Frances 215 13. Fair Street. 

Eberhardt, Miss Jennie 45 E. Georgia Avenue. 

Eberhardt, Miss Gussie 45 E. Georgia Avenue. 

Edmonds, Mrs. Anna S 720 Piedmont Avenue. 

Eley, Mrs. Ellen M 198 S. Pryor Street. 

Eley, Jos. N Mobile, Ala. 



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Ellis, W. D 547 Peachtree Street. 

Ellis, Mrs. W. D 547 Peachtree Street. 

Ellis, Harry 547 Peachtree Street. 

Eilis, Mrs. Leonora Beck 

Ellis, Miss Jennie 166 Formwalt Street. 

Ellis, Miss Sadie 197 Pryor Street. 

Ellison, Mrs. F. Laura 464 Spring Street. 

Ellison, Jos. K 464 Spring Street. 

Ellison, Miss Virginia 464 Spring Street. 

Erdmon, CM Mobile, Ala. 

Erdmon, Mrs. Louise Gibbs Mobile, Ala. 

Estes s Dr. Win. C 62 Crew Street. 

Estes, Mrs. Maggie 62 Crew Street. 

Estes, J. W 62 Crew Street. 

Estes, Miss Mary E 62 Crew Street. 

Edmondson, Miss Gertrude 298 Central Avenue. 

Edmondson, Miss Carrie 298 Central Avenue. 

Edmondson, Miss Lola 298 Central Avenue. 

Edmonson, Miss Janie 298 Central Avenue. 

Everett, Mrs. Mary A: 241 E. Fair Street. 

Everett, Miss Mary 241 E. Fair Street. 

Fairman, Mrs. Essie 201 Hoyt Street. 

Fairman, Waverly 201 Hoyt Street. 

Fall, CM 215 E. Fair Street. 

Farnsworth, J. A 66 N. Pryor Street. 

Field, Julian 269 Washington Street. 

Field, Mrs. Julian 269 Washington Street. 

Fischer, J. A 394 S. Boulevard. 

Fischer, Mrs. J. A 394 S. Boulevard. 

Fischer, J. A. Jr 394 S. Boulevard. 

Fischer, Miss Annie Belle 394 S. Boulevard. 

Fischer, Hugh R 140 Windsor Street. 

Fischer, L. C 1101 English-American Bldg. 

Fitzgerald, B. Davis 182 Rawson Street. 

Fitzgerald, J. Edwin 182 Rawson Street. 

Flynt, Max S 245 Woodward Avenue. 

Floersh, Miss Lena 192 Crew Street. 

Floersh, Elwood 192 Crew Street. 

Flournoy, Jno. W Neal, Corner Lindsey. 

Fluker, J. M 233 Central Avenue. 

Fluker, Mrs. Julia H 233 Central Avenue. 

Foster, Mrs. Pauline Macon, Ga. 

Franklin, Mrs. Eugenia E 345 W. Peachtree Street. 

Franklin, W. J 345 W. Peachtree Street. 



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Fox, Mrs. Viola Bacon 182 Crew Streex, 

Fuller, W. A 337 Washington Street. 

Fuller, Mrs. Susan C 337 Washington Street. 

Fuller, Miss Nina 337 Washington Street. 

Fuller, Miss Leila Belle 337 Washington Street. 

Fuller, Miss Annie L 337 Washington Street. 

Fuller, Miss Nellie 337 Washington Street 

Fuller, J. M 43% W. Mitchell Street 

Fuller, Mrs. J. M. (Laura) 43% W. Mitchell Street. 

Fuller, Mrs. Caro Bacon 182 Crew Street 

Fulton, Mrs. Annie May 202 Capitol Avenue. 



Gaar, W. S 436 S. Pryor Street. 

Gaar, Mrs. Alice 436 S. Pryor Street. 

Garrett, Mrs. Mary A 194 Washington Street 

Garrett, Miss Gussie 194 Washington Street 

Gerald, Mrs. Furlow W 119 Washington Street. 

Gibbs, Eu genius T 20 Connally Street 

Gibbs, Mrs. E 20 Connally Street 

Gibson, Paul W. 10 Woodward Avenue. 

Gibson, Mrs. S. B 10 Woodward Avenue. 

Gibson, Miss Louise H 10 Woodward Avenue. 

Gibson, Benj. W 101 Nelson Street 

Gillette, Mrs. Wm. H 33 Crew Street. 

Goodletter, Mrs. Anna G 664 S. Pryor Street. 

Goodwin, Miss Feliscia 399 Central Avenue. 

Goodson, Jas. A 117 Central Avenue. 

Goodwin, Mrs. L 124 S. Pryor Street. 

Goodwynne, Mrs. Cornelia 132 S. Pryor Street 

Grant, James D 404 Luckie Street 

Grant, Mrs. Lizzie 404 Luckie Street 

Griffin, Miss Irene 22 Harris Street 

Griffin, Mrs. Mary 85 E. Hunter Street. 

Griffin, J. K 116 Garnett Street. 

Griffin, Mrs. J. K 116 Garnett Street 

Granade, L. W 35 N. Pryor Street. 

Gosney, Miss Inez (Agnes Scott), Decatur, Ga. 

Gregory, Miss Annie 50 Williams Street. 

Griggs, Mrs. M. E 399 Central Avenue. 

Griggs, Miss Julia 399 Central Avenue. 

Griggs, Miss Mary G 399 Central Avenue. 

Green, J. Paul 127 Auburn Avenue. 

Green, Mrs. Cecelia C 127 Auburn Avenue. 

Grubbs, Miss E. H. W 209 Capitol Avenue. 

Graham, Mrs. Lizzie Moore Eley Clarksville, Miss. 



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Hahr, Mrs. Lillian Franklin 345 W. Peachtree Street. 

Hall, Mrs. Victoria Collins 

Hambree, Mrs. Louise W 178 McDaniel Street. 

Hall, Joseph A 182 Rawson Street. 

Hall, Mrs. Mary Fitzgerald 182 Rawson Street. 

Hall, Miss Jessie , 182 Rawson Street. 

Hall, Joseph A. Jr 182 Rawson Street. 

Hall, Davis 182 Rawson Street. 

Hall, G. W. (55 E. Hunter) Lakewood. 

Hall, Mrs. G. W. (55 E. Hunter) Lakewood 

Hall, John Harvey Equitable Bldg. 

Hammock, Mrs. Letitia J 10 E. North Avenue. 

Hammond, Mrs. Clifford P 659 Piedmont Avenue. 

Hanvey, Mrs. Diana E 632 S. Pryor Street. 

Hardin, Mrs. Mary Roper 407 Washington Street. 

Harper, W. C 419 Washington Street. 

Harper, Mrs. W. C 419 Washington Street. 

Harper, R. E 329 Pulliam Street. 

Harper, Mrs. R. E 329 Pulliam Street. 

Harp, Miss Myrtle 55 Luckie Street. 

Harris, Miss Lena 64 Forrest Avenue. 

Harris, Miss Florence 64 Forrest Avenue. 

Harrison, R. T 202 Pulliam Street. 

Harrison, Mrs. M. A 202 Pulliam Street. 

Harrison, J. Edgar 202 Pulliam Street. 

Harrison, C H 163 Courtland Avenue. 

Harrison, Mrs. C. H 163 Courtland Avenue. 

Harrison, Miss Beryl Mae 163 Courtland Avenue. 

Harrison, Mrs. Emma F 231 Woodward Avenue. 

Harrison, R. E 231 Woodward Avenue. 

Harrison, Mrs. Z. D. Jr Ballground, Ga. 

Harrelson, Mrs. R. E 127 Walton Street. 

Hatcher, Rev. Harvey 99 Capitol Square. 

Hatcher, Mrs. Mary E 99 Capitol Square. 

Hatcher, Kallie St. Louis, Mo. 

Hart, Miss Bessie 299 Washington Street. 

Hart, Miss Elizabeth 299 Washington Street. 

Hay good, A. J 219 S. Pryor Street. 

Hainesworth, J. H 295 S. Pryor Street. 

Harrell, Miss Jean 131 S. Pryor Street. 

Henderson, Miss Lillian 60 Windsor Street 

Hendrix, Miss Nettie 269 E Fair Street. 

Henson, Miss Annie Mae 76 Martin Street. 

Henderson, Claude B 32 Queen Street. 



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Henderson, Mrs. Sarah 32 Queen Street. 

Henry, Miss Annie 100 S. Boulevard. 

Henry, T. L 100 S. Boulevard. 

Hester, Robert L#. (So. Exp. Co.) Chattanooga, Ga. 

Hervitte, Anderson 104 S. Forsyth Street. 

Hill, Mrs. D. Pike Bast Point, Ga. 

Hill, F. F 

Hillyer, George 5 Crew Street. 

Hillyer, Mrs. George 5 Crew Street. 

Hillyer, Henry 151 Capitol Avenue. 

Hillyer, William Hurd 151 Capitol Avenue. 

Hillyer, Mrs. Mary Jones 151 Capitol Avenue. 

Hinnian, Mrs. Belle Roach 153 Whitehall Street. 

Hodges, Mrs. Susan E 176 S. Forsyth Street. 

Hollis, Mrs. Harriet J 100 Fowler Street. 

Hollis, Miss Florence 100 Fowler Street. 

Holditch, Mrs. Edith 98 E. Georgia Avenue. 

Holmes, Mrs. Mary A 209 Capitol Avenue. 

Hooks, Mrs. Kate 602 Washington Street. 

Hoover, D. F 310 S. Pryor Street. 

Horn, J. F 85 E. Hunter Street. 

Horton, Clyde 213 Equitable Bldg. 

Horton, Mrs. Mary Bolt Birmingham, Ala. 

Howell, Miss Ada 308 Whitehall Street. 

Hudson, Miss Mable 127 S. Pryor Street. 

Hudson, Mrs. Rosa 98 Ivy Street. 

Hudson, J. Derrick 1323 Empire Bldg. 

Huff, Dr. M. D 718 Prudential Bldg. 

Hunter, Joel R 208 Empire Bldg. 

Huey, Miss Alvice 418 Georgia Avenue. 

Hunt, Mrs. Julia T 305 Richardson Street. 

Hunt, Miss Francis 305 Richardson Street. 

Hunt, Leonard 305 Richardson Street 



Irwin, W. E 

Ivey, Mrs. A. C. . . . 

Jackson, Miss Evelyn 
Jackson, Miss Marion 
Jackson, Miss Mattie 
Jackson, Miss Rosalie 

Jackson, Wm 

Jackson, Mrs. Kate . 
Jacobs, Mrs. M. F. . 
James, John H. . . . 



, 20 Scotia Apartments. 
.... Mount Airy, Ga. 

... 158 E.Fair Street. 

. . 158 E. Fair Street. 

. 100 W. Baker Street. 

. 100 W. Baker Street. 
390 Woodward Avenue. 
390 Woodward Avenue. 
. . . 29 E. 13th. Street. 
. . . 415 Century Bldg. 



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James, Mrs. John H (care of) 415 Century Bldg. 

James, A. L 421 Grand Bldg. 

Janes, Mrs. Mary E 383 Cherokee Avenue. 

Janes, W. M 73 Trinity Avenue. 

Jarrard, J. C 18 Central Avenue. 

Jenkins, Mrs. J. C Manila, P. I. 

Jenkins, J. C Manila, P. I 

Jenkins, Miss Majorie Manila, P. I. 

Jenkins, Wm. L Manila, P. I. 

Jenkins, Carl Manila, P. I. 

Jenkins, S. T 

Jennings, Mrs. Thos. L 97 Capitol Square 

Jester, Miss Rosa 97 S. Pryor Street. 

Jett, J. W 202 S. Forsyth Street. 

Johnson, James M 475 Whitehall Street. 

Johnson, Ed. F. (with News) . Coraer Alabama & Forsyth Street. 

Johnson, Mrs. Jessie 

Johnson, Owens 228 Capitol Avenue. 

Johnson, Mrs. Owens 228 Capitol Avenue. 

Jones, Miss Carrie 66 Hood Street. 

Jones, Miss Mattie S 66 Hood Street. 

Jones, T. H. (office 403 Lowndes Bldg.) . 326 Courtland Avenue. 

Jones, Dr. L. H. 150 Juniper Street. 

Jones, Mrs. L. H 150 Juniper Street. 

Jones, S. Percy 226 W. Peachtree Street. 

Jones, Mrs. Eddie Andrews 289 S. Pryor Street. 

Jones, Mrs. Edna Avery 301 Peachtree Street. 

Jones, Mrs. Sanorah J 228 E. Hunter Street. 

Jones, Miss Lizzie 228 E. Hunter Street. 

Jones, Mrs. Mary Allen 253 W. North Avenue. 

Justice, Mrs. Delia 75 Park Avenue. 

Kendrick, Miss Cecil V 51 E. Georgia Avenue. 

Kendrick, Miss Mabel 51 E. Georgia Avenue. 

Kendrick, Miss Helen F. . . . Brooklyn Avenue, Cincinnati, O. 

Kempton, Jos. F 228 Crew Street. 

Kempton, Mrs. Jos. F 228 Crew Street. 

Kempton, Jno. M 228 Crew Street. 

Kempton, Jos. F. Jr 228 Crew Street. 

Kempton, Miss Sallie ' 228 Crew Street. 

Kimbrew, Mrs. Anna 158 Whitehall Street. 

Kimbrew, CD 158 Whitehall Street. 

Key, Miss Fannie Orphans' Home, Hapeville. 

Killian, Mrs. Annie B 5<57 Woodward Avenue. 



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Killian, Ed. P 557 Wocdward Avenue. 

Kimball, Miss Olive M. . . 234 Central Park, West, New York. 

Kimball, Miss Idelle 325 S. Pryor Street. 

King, Mrs. Porter 79 E. Merritts Avenue. 

King, Remson 79 E. Georgia Avenue. 

King, Miss Carolyn Porter 79 E. Merritts Avenue. 

King, Mrs. Rosa Pope 255 Rawson Street. 

King, Miss Lula 255 Rawson Street. 

King, Miss Willie 255 Rawson Street. 

King, Mrs. Annie White Marietta, Ga. 

Kirby, Edward E 2d Floor, 4th National Bank Bldg. 

Kirby, Tollison 

Kitchens, C. B t 

Kruger, Prof. E. H 125 Auburn Avenue. 

Kruger, Mrs. Octavia 12-5 Auburn Avenue. 

Landsdell, Mrs. Lucy Bacon .... Corner E. Pine & Piedmont. 

Lee, Miss Joy E 58 Garnett Street. 

Lee, Mrs. S. D 58 Garnett Street 

Lamkin, Robt. H 305 Richardson Street. 

Larson, Miss Marie E 82 Central Place. 

Lively, Mrs. Annie H. R Ormewood Park. 

Logan, Mrs. Alice B 36 E. North Avenue. 

Logan, G. P 103 Trinity Avenue. 

Littlefield, Miss Buena 

Lloyd, Wm. J Chattahoochee, Ga. 

Love, Mrs. M. A 72 Washington Street. 

Lowe, Wm 162 S. Pryor Street. 

Lowe, Mrs. Wm 162 S. Pryor Street. 

Lowe, Miss Lucy 162 S. Pryor Street. 

Lowe, Merrill C 162 S. Pryor Street. 

Lowndes, Geo. S 102 Washington Street. 

Lowndes, Mrs. Geo. S 102 Washington Street. 

Lowndes, Miss Emma B 102 Washington Street. 

Lowndes, Holland B 102 Washington Street. 

Lowndes, Dozier 102 Washington Street. 

Lumpkin, Mrs. C. C 143 Kelly Street. 

Lumpkin, E. S 143 Kelly Street. 

Lunceford, G. W 103 Trinity Avenue. 

MacGregor, Rev. Malcom, D. D 103 Moreland Avenue. 

MacGregor, Mrs. Malcolm 103 Moreland Avenue. 

MacGregor, Miss Clementine 103 Moreland Avenue. 

MacGregor, Miss Margaret 103 Moreland Avenue. 

MacGregor, Wm. A 103 Moreland Avenue. 



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Mabry, J. F 1522 St. Charles, New Orleans. 

Mabry, Mrs. M. H 1522 St. Charles, New Orleans. 

Macauley, J .M 

Maeauley, Mrs. O. M 

Maddox, Nolan H 53 Crew Street. 

Malone, Mrs. A. E. 380 W. Peachtree Street. 

Malone, Mrs. A. W 380 W. Peachtree Street. 

Malone, Miss Alberta 380 W. Peachtree Street. 

Malcne, Edward F 380 W. Peachtree Street. 

Manning, Mrs. McHenry 24% Elliott Street. 

Manry, W. F 74 E. Mitchell Street. 

Manry, Mrs. W. F 74 E, Mitchell Street. 

Manry, W. F. Jr 74 E. Mitchell Street. 

Manry, Miss Annie 74 E. Mitchell Street. 

Manry, James 74 E. Mitchell Street. 

Manry, Neal 74 E. Mitchell Street. 

Massengale, Mrs. Ella V 359 E. Hunter Street. 

Mason, Mrs. Fannie L 50 Williams Street. 

Mason, R. Lee 50 Williams Street. 

Mann, Miss Cora Bell 217 Capitol Avenue. 

Marshall, Mrs. Julia A 174 Central Avenue. 

Mathews, John H , 134 Crew Street. 

Mathews, Miss Kate Orphans Home, Hapeville. 

Mathews, Marion 134 Crew Street. 

Mathews, Miss Annie May 134 Crew Street. 

Mitchiner, D. R 81 E. Fair Street. 

Mitchiner, Mrs. D. R 81 E. Fair Street. 

Mattison, Miss Daisy 92 Pulliam Street. 

Mattison, Miss Amelia 92 Pulliam Street. 

Mattison, Myrtice 92 Pulliam Street. 

Mattison, Miss Annie May 92 Pulliam Street. 

Mattox, Mrs. F. T 

Mead, Willie Decatur, Ga. 

Meeler, J. O Chattahoochee, Ga. 

Mell, Mrs. Lillie Robinson Edgewood, Ga. 

Miller, Miss Ella 385 Pulliam Street. 

Meyer, Henry 96 Love joy Street. 

Mitchel, Miss Shatteen 60 E. Baker Street. 

Moore, Mrs. A. J 104 Crew Street. 

Moore, F. F 172 Rawson Street. 

Moore, Mrs. Jessie 172 Rawson Street. 

Moore, Mrs. Effie Bush 246 Park Avenue. 

Moore, Mrs. Carrie 246 Park Avenue. 

Milton, Miss Ella 



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Moorefield, D. E 233 S. Pryor Street. 

Moorefield, Mrs. Nell 233 S. Pryor Street. 

Morgan, L. B 367 Glenn Street. 

Morgan, Mrs. Lula 367 Glenn Street. 

Moss, Miss Kathleen 295 Central Avenue. 

Moss, Hollis H 22 Central Avenue. 

Mostellar, Mrs. Margaret R 419 Woodward Avenue. 

Mostellar, Paul 601 Empire Bldg. 

Mozley, Mrs. H 507 Spring Street. 

Miller, Mrs. Frances 286 B, Fair Street. 

Munday, W. C Kiser Bldg. 

Murphy, Mrs. H. V 379 "Washington Street. 

Murray, Mrs. Julia East Point, Ga. 

McBride, A. J 406 S. Pryor Street. 

McBride, Mrs A. J 406 S. Pryor Street. 

McBride, A. J., Jr 406 S. Pryor Street. 

McBride, R. B. (Fort Screven) Savannah, Ga. 

McBride, Mrs. Sallie L 178 Jackson Street. 

McBride, Miss T. H 178 Jackson Street. 

McBride, Miss Jay 178 Jackson Street. 

McGarity, Dr. A. E 172 Crew Street. 

McGarity, Mrs. A. E 172 Crew Street. 

McGarity, Jessie 172 Crew Street 

McKenzie, George 341 W. Peachtree Street. 

McKenzie, Mrs. George 341 W. Peachtree Street. 

McKenzie, Miss Annie Lee 341 W. Peachtree Street. 

McDonald, Mrs. Alice Ely 198 S. Pryor Street. 

McClelland, Mrs. Helen Black 222 Washington Street. 

McGehee, Mrs. Nellie Smith 261 Crumley Street. 

McKinney, Mrs. Elizabeth 

McLaughlin, Mrs. Annie M 17 E. Fair Street. 

McLendon, J. J Meadow, Ala. 

McMartin, Ezekiel, U. S. Soldier Ft. McPherson. 

McMichael, Mrs. Georgia 129 E. Pine Street. 

McNeal, Zach W. (watch care) 58 Garnett Street. 

Neal, Zach M. (watch care) 

Neece, H. B 308 Equitable Bldg. 

Nelson, Mrs. Julia 0 251 Gordon Street. 

Nelson, Wade H. (watch care) 

Newman, Mrs. A. E. 72 Washington Street. 

Newman, Miss lone 72 Washington Street 

Nichols, Mrs. M. L 201 Peachtree Street. 

Nicholson, Miss Ethel Orphans' Home, Hapeville. 



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Northen, Mrs. Thos. H. ........ .'650 Piedmont Avenue. 

Northen, William J. Jr. . 650 Piedmont Avenue. 

Northen, Miss Ruth 650 Piedmont Avenue. 

Northen, George Traylor 650 Piedmont Avenue. 

Nunnally, Mrs. Emma E 66 Richardson Street. 

Nunnally, Miss Mary H. 66 Richardson Street. 

Nunnally, Wm. H 66 Richardson Street. 

Newell, Mrs. Ellen Hillyer 5 Crew Street. 

O'Neal, Mrs. Mattie Lowe, (care of) .... 162 S. Pryor Street. 

O'Keefe, Mrs. Sarah F 251 Gordon Street 

Ormond, Mrs. F. R 122 E. Pine Street. 

Ormond, Sidney J 122 E. Pine Street. 

Ormond, Walter E 122 E. Pine Street. 

Orr, Chas. H. (book store) 92 Whitehall Street. 

Orrie, Lewis 361 Terry Street. 

Orrie, Mrs. Julia 361 Terry Street. 

Orrie, Miss Marie A 361 Terry Street. 

Orrie, Miss Alice 361 Terry Street. 

Orrie, Miss Louise 361 Terry Street. 

Owen, C. J Soldiers' Home. 

Page, Mrs. Agnes Jacob 29 E. 13th Street. 

Parsons, Mrs, M. E 131 Capitol Square. 

Pate, Mrs. Ida 390 Whitehall Street. 

Paxon, F. J 353 Capitol Avenue. 

Paxon, Mrs. E. H 353 Capitol Avenue. 

Pearce, J. Coy 103 Ivy Street. 

Peeples, Mrs. Hannah Y. 133 Walton Street. 

Pendleton, Jno. T 666 Piedmont Avenue. 

Pendleton, Mrs. Jno T. 666 Piedmont Avenue. 

Pendleton, Roy Inman Park. 

Perkins, E. C 428 Central Avenue. 

Perkins, Mrs. Bertha H 428 Central Avenue. 

Perryman, Frank M 236 E. Georgia Avenue. 

Perryman, Mrs. Frank M 236 E. Georgia Avenue. 

Pickens, Mrs. Evelyn E. . . , 105 E. Georgia Avenue. 

Pittman, Mrs. Louisa N 74 E. Mitchell Street. 

Pittman, Miss Eloise 74 E. Mitchell Street. 

Plowden, R. E 616 Peters Bldg. 

Pittman, Mrs. L. K 210 Grant Street 

Plowden, Mrs. R. E {care of) 616 Peters Bldg. 

Plunket, A. F 89 W. Haynes Street. 

Prescott, Mrs. Emma 348 Spring Street 

Prescott, Miss Helen "The Oaks," Georgetown, D. C. 



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Prescott, W. R. (617 Equitable Bldg.) .... 348 Spring Street. 
Pryer, H. H. (watch, care) 



Potter, Rufus H 255 W. North Avenue. 

Putnam, Mrs. A. J 659 Piedmont Avenue. 

Putnam, Percy 659 Piedmont Avenue. 

Protho, Mrs. R. M 2219 Bienville Street, New Orleans. 

Putnam, Miss Etta L. 228 Capitol Avenue. 



Reynolds, Miss Emma 62 Fraser Street. 

Ray, Mrs. J. M 554 Capitol Avenue. 

Read, J. V 152 Pulliam Street. 

Read, Mrs. Clara L 152 Pulliam Street. 

Read, Ralph 152 Pulliam Street. 

Read, Miss Ethel 152 Pulliam Street. 

Ramsey, Cicero A 

Richardson, Prof. John A. 300 Spring Street. 

Richardson, Mrs. Lucy 300 Spring Street. 

Rhodes, Wallace, (post-office) 389 Central Avenue. 

Rhodes, Mrs. Wallace 389 Central Avenue. 

Richards, J. J Near Barracks. 

Richards, S. P 112 Washington Street. 

Richards, Mrs. S. P 112 Washington Street. 

Richards, Walter M 112 Washington Street. 

Richards, Russell E 112 Washington Street 

Richards, Geo. A 112 Washington Street. 

Richardson, Mrs. Ida 18 E. Pine Street. 

Roach, Mrs. Ellen M 153 Whitehall Street. 

Robert, Miss Addie 168 Crew Street. 

Robert, B. F 168 Crew Street. 

Robert, Miss Mary P 168 Crew Street. 

Robert, Harry (office 37 S. Pryor) 287 Gordon Street. 

Roberts, Mrs. Thena C 52 Walker Street. 

Roberts, Miss Carrie 62 Walker Street 

Roberts, Mrs. Lettie 234 Whitehall Street. 

Roberts, Marion L (West End) Chert Road. 

Robertson, Miss Martha 543 Central Avenue. 

Robinson, Joseph 25 Tifton Street 

Robinson, Mrs. Joseph 25 Tifton Street 

Robinson, Chas. R 181 Crew Street. 

Robinson, J. E Birmingham, Ala. 

Robinson, Mrs. J. E Birmingham, Ala. 

Robinson, Mrs. Inez Garrett 126 Fraser Street 

Ross, W. M 455 E. Fair Street. 

Ross, Mrs. W. M 455 E. Fair Street. 

Rucker, Mrs Sarah 0 187 E. Fair Street. 



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Rucker, Tinsley W. Jr 187 E. Fair Street. 

Rucker, Lamar C 187 E. Fair Street. 

Rucker, Miss Mary 187 E. Fair Street. 

Russeil, Mrs. Sarah L » 126 Crew Street. 

Russell, Mrs. Mary Scott Cherokee Avenue. 

Rush, W. W 26 Trinity Avenue. 

Russell, Thos. G 78 Dodd Avenue. 

Rogers, W. T. (watch care) Atlanta, Ga. 

Sharp, Macon C 46 W. Alabama Street. 

Saunders, Mrs. V. D 35 Houston Street. 

Saunders, T. D. . . 35 Houston Street. 

Sawyer, Mrs. Charlotte S 193 Washington Street. 

Scott, R. J Peachtree Inn. 

Scott, Mrs. R. J Peachtree Inn. 

Shackelford, Miss Ona 323 Pulliam Street. 

Shannon, Mrs. Minnie Barracks Car Line. 

Shaw, J. L 415 Auburn Avenue. 

Shaw, Mrs. S. E 415 Auburn Avenue. 

Shelton, Miss Ethel A. 133 S. Pryor Street. 

Sigman, Miss Lizzie 

Sims, Marshall R. (910 Empire Bldg.) 154 Gordon. 

Sims, P. B 

Shields, Miss Emma 160 Crew Street. 

Shields, Miss Willie 160 Crew Street. 

Simpson, Mrs. Chas. A 151 Richardson Street. 

Singer, J. E 174 Washington Street. 

Singer, Mrs. Julia 174 Washington Street. 

Singer, H. L. (office) 63 S. Broad Street. 

Smith, Miss Nettie B 73 Walker Street. 

Smith, Miss Florence 73 Walker Street. 

Smith, Levi J Decatur. 

Smith, Mrs. Julia Mattison 463 N. Jackson Street. 

Snow, Mrs. L 252 Rawson Street. 

Snow, Miss Emma G 252 Rawson Street. 

Smith, Dr. C. 0 136 Capitol Avenue. 

Smith, Mrs. Mary L. 136 Capitol Avenue. 

Smith, Scott M Ill Lake Avenue. 

Smith, Dr. F. P 565 Washington Street. 

Smith, Mrs, Fannie C 565 Washington Street. 

Smith, Miss Myrtis 565 Washington Street. 

Smith, Dr. Claude A 565 Washington Street. 

Smith, Jno. W 3d Nat Bank, Empire Bldg. 

Smith, Mrs. Mary 

Smith, Edwin D 



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Smith, John . 

Smith, Miss L 

Snider, Leonard 

Snider, Mrs. Sallie S , . 

Spahr, Fred ¥. S* Signal Service. 

Spalding, Jno. S 53 Ashby Street. 

Spalding, Mrs. Mary Connally .63 Ashby Street. 

Speairs, Mrs. Cola Smith 565 Washington Street 

Speir, Mrs. Hassle 58 E. Baker Street. 

Spencer, Mrs. O. Bolt 

Stark, J. H 1ZL7 W. Harris Street. 

Stark, Mrs. Sidney E 117 W. Harris Street. 

Spradlin, Geo. H. . 215 South Avenue. 

Spradlin, Mrs. Willie 215 South Avenue. 

Stallworth, Mrs. S. J 33 E. Fair Street. 

Stallworth, R. B 33 E. Fair Street. 

Stallworth, Miss Annie Mae . 33 E. Fair Street. 

Standard, Miss Mary 85 Central Avenue; 

Standard, Chas. Q 4«% Wall Street. 

Stanley, J. Norris IS Capitol Place. 

Stevens, Miss Laura 295 S. Pryor Street. 

Stevens, Miss Carrie 295- S. Pryor Street. 

Stevens, Miss Lillie 295 S. Pryor Street. 

Stewart, Edwin 224 Ponce de Leon Avenue. 

Stewart, Mrs. Mary Belle 224 Ponce de Leon Avenue. 

Stovall, G. R .76 Houston Street. 

Stewart, Miss Mamie L 74 W. Peachtree Street. 

Strain, Mrs. Elizabeth J 188 Capitol Avenue. 

Strain, Miss Alice D 188 Capitol Avenue. 

Sterling, Mrs. Mary H LaGrange, Ga. 

Stillman, G. Emmett 204 Whitehall Street. 

Stillman, Mrs. Sylvania 204 Whitehall Street. 

Stovall, Miss Bessie R 12 Stonewall Street. 

Strozier, Mrs. A. F 82 Spring Street. 

Sullivan, J. J 440 Washington Street. 

Sullivan, Mrs. J. J 440 Washington Street. 

Swift, Chas. H 73 Trinity Avenue. 

Swift, Mrs. Chas. H 73 Trinity Avenue. 

Swift, Robt. B. (office) 301 Lowndes Bldg. 

Swift, Miss Maude . 54 Walton Street. 

Sylvester, Mrs. Julia F 720 Piedmont Avenue. 

Tapp, Sidney C. (office) 514 Austell Bldg. 

Tate, Mrs. Margaret C 12 Gray Street. 



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Taylor, Wesley 16 Capitol Place. 

Taylor, Mrs. V. V 15 Capitol Place. 

Taylor, Miss Annie 15 Capitol Place. 

Taylor, Miss Effie 15 Capitol Place. 

Taylor, Miss Victoria E 15 Capitol Place. 

Taylor, Vince 15 Capitol Place. 

Taylor, Mrs. Irene R 112 Washington Street. 

Taylor, Miss Mabel 112 Washington Street. 

Taylor, Miss Natalie 112 Washington Street. 

Taylor, Percy C 112 Washington Street. 

Taylor, W. R 451 Jackson Street. 

Taylor, Mrs. S. L. 451 Jackson Street. 

Taylor, Miss May 451 Jackson Street. 

Taylor, Miss Ethel 451 Jackson Street. 

Taylor, Miss Frankie 451 Jackson Street. 

Tayler, Mrs. Sarah R 337 E. Hunter Street. 

Terrell, Mrs. Joseph M. (Gov. Mansion) . 208 Peachtree Street. 

Terrell, Mrs. Rosa R 121 Crew Street. 

Thibadeau, Mrs. Nevada P. 501 S. Pryor Street. 

Thibadeau, Louis 501 S. Pryor Street. 

Thomas, Mrs. Lillie A 104 S. Pryor Street. 

Thompson, Mrs. E 540 S. Pryor Street. 

Thornton, E. H 78 Forrest Avenue. 

Thornton, Mrs. E. H 78 Forrest Avenue. 

Thornton, Miss Ella May 78 Forrest Avenue. 

Thornton, Richard 78 Forrest Avenue. 

Thornton, Eugene H 78 Forrest Avenue. 

Thornton, James R 278 N. Boulevard. 

Thurman, Mrs. Mary 397 W. Peachtree Street. 

Tiller, Mrs. J. A 396 Rawson Street. 

Tiller, Miss Nettie 396 Rawson Street. 

Tiller, J. D 396 Rawson Street. 

Toon, Mrs. S. J Edgewood, Ga. 

Traynham, Mrs. Julia Abbie 41 Luckie Street. 

Truslow, Mrs. Geneva H 151 Grant Street. 

Traber, Frank H 245 Woodward Avenue. 

Tucker, Henry H Atlanta, Ga. 

Tuggle, Miss Aurie 19 Connally Street. 

Turman, S. B. (office) 14 E. Alabama Street. 



Underwood, Edwin . . 
linger, Fred .... 
linger, Harrison A. . 
Unger, Miss Eva May 
Unger, Miss Viola . . 



. . . . Tech School. 
104 Connally Street. 
104 Connally Street. 
104 Connally Street. 
104 Connally Street. 



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Vann, Miss Eleanor Orphans' Home. 

Vary, Mrs. Ida W 76 Washington Street. 

Vernoy, Alfred A 174 S. Pryor Street. 

Vernoy, Mrs. Mary 174 S. Pryor Street. 

Verstille, Mrs. Mary Elizabeth 87 Martin Street. 

Voss, P. J 178 Crew Street. 

Voss, Mrs. P. J 178 Crew Street. 

Voss, Willie 178 Crew Street. 

Voss, Miss Olive 178 Crew Street. 

Walker, H. H. ~7~77 178 McDaniel Street. 

Walker, Mrs. Ella B 178 McDaniel Street. 

Walker, Miss Louise 178 McDaniel Street. 

Walker, Miss Bettie 78 E. Mitchell Street. 

Walker, May A 207 Grant Street. 

Walker, Miss Willie 207 Grant Street. 

Wall, D. C 74 Nelson Street. 

Wallace, Hugh Tech. School. 

Wallace, Miss Elizabeth K. 70 Central Place. 

Walthour, Palmer (office 35 N. Pryor Street) 488 Jackson Street. 

Walthour, Mrs. Anice 488 Jackson Street. 

Watson, Miss Jennie 55 Fraser Street. 

Watson, Miss Sallie 55 Fraser Street. 

Watson, W. A 55 Fraser Street. 

Walton, Eugene R 179 S. Pryor Street. 

Walton, Miss Leila 179 S. Pryor Street 

Watson, J. Lee 525 Empire Bldg. 

Watson, L. D 71 Capitol Avenue. 

Watson, Mrs. L. D 71 Capitol Avenue. 

Ward, Guy T 32 Auburn Avenue. 

Wardlaw, Mrs. Claude B Little Rock, Ark. 

Wayne, C. C 161 S. Forsyth Street. 

Wayne, Mrs. C. C 161 S. Forsyth Street. 

Wayne, F. J 223 Central Avenue. 

Wayne, Mrs. F. J 223 Central Avenue. 

Warner, Mrs. Julia 221 Lawton Street. 

Welch, M. M 318 Washington Street. 

Welch, Mrs. M. M 318 Washington Street. 

Welch, Miss Louise 318 Washington Street 

Welch, Miss Margaret 318 Washington Street 

Weimer, Mrs. Maggie 20 Whitehall Terrace. 

Weaver, Frank O 

Webb, Lucius B 1412 4th Nat. Bank Bldg. 

Welborn, Miss Cora Columbus, Ga. 

Welborn, Miss Eddie 57 Capitol Avenue. 

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Welborn, Miss Sevie 130 Ivy. 

Westmoreland, George 290 Washington Street. 

Westmoreland, Mrs. Elvira T 290 Washington Street. 

Westmoreland, Miss Caroline 290 Washington Street. 

Westmoreland, Miss Elvira 290 Washington Street. 

Westmoreland, Miss Sarah 290 Washington Street. 

Wester, John D 99 Capitol Square. 

Wester, Mrs. Jno. D 99 Capitol Square. 

Whatley, Mrs. Cynthia A. 129 E. Pine Street 

White, Rev. Jno. E., D.D 9 Crew Street. 

White, Mrs Jno. E. 9 Crew Street. 

White, Jno. E. Jr 9 Crew Street. 

White, Miss Eva M Colquitt Hill. 

Whitehead, Mrs. Ella Aldridge 5 Garnett Street. 

White, Mrs. Mary A Marietta, Ga. 

Y^itehead, Miss Pauline 5 Garnett Street. 

Wilkins, Samuel 38 Windsor Street. 

Wilkins, Mrs. Samuel 38 Windsor Street. 

Wilkins, Miss Mattie 38 Windsor Street. 

Wilkinson, Beebe Charlotte, N. C. 

Williams, Mrs. Julia 229 E. Fair Street. 

Williams, Miss Lilla J 229 E. Fair Street. 

Williams, Miss Leola 229 E. Fair Street. 

Williamson, Miss Mollie 161 S. Pryor Street. 

Will, Mrs. Emma J 271 E. Fair Street. 

Williams, H. P 

Williams, Mrs. Carrie 

Williams, Mrs. Lucinda 

Williams, Miss Lettie 

Williams, Frank H Savannah, Ga. 

Wilson, Mrs. Mary T 

Wilson, Wm 98 Dodd Avenue. 

Wilson, Mrs. Maggie 

Wilson, Mrs. Mamie 

Wingfield, Mrs. T. H 100 W. Harris Street. 

Wingfield, T. H 100 W. Harris Street. 

Wolff, Mrs M. H , 9 Peachtree Place. 

Woodward, Mrs. Ida Bush Martin Street. 

Wright, Miss Ida 

Wooten, E. N 

Wright, J. T 901 Century Bldg. 

Wynne, Jno. T Fargo, Ga. 

Wynne, Mrs. Jno. T Fargo, Ga. 

Yancey, Goodloe H 93 Capitol Square. 



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Yancey, Earle B 93 Capitol Square,- 

Yancey, Miss Mary Ella 93 Capitol Square. 

Yancey, Miss Lucy G 93 Capitol Square. 

Young, Mrs. Ada Daniel 73 Orme Street. 

Young, Sylvester 73 Orme Street. 

York, Mrs. Carrie B 220 Capitol Avenue. 



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Asbmore, J. V 24 York Street. 

Ashmore, Mrs. Annie B 24 York Street. 

Austin, Mrs. Mattie Oakland City. 

Anderson, Mrs. A. A 18 Walnut Street. 

Beavers, Mrs. Martha 1 44 Walnut Street. 

Beavers, R. Willis 44 Walnut Street. 

Barron, R. A 33 Stonewall Street. 

Baxter, Rev. J. T. (Pastor) 139 Nelson Street. 

Baxter, Mrs. J. T 139 Nelson Street. 

Butler, R. E 181 S. Pryor Street. 

Butler, Mrs. R. E 181 S. Pryor Street. 

Butler, Ina 181 S. Pryor Street. 

Butler, Mrs. Fannie North Atlanta. 

Butler, Miss Kitty North Atlanta. 

Bone, Mrs. Georgia 80 Stonewall Street. 

Bone, Miss Rosa 80 Stonewall Street. 

Bone, Miss Naomi 80 Stonewall Street.. 

Barnes, M. 0 201 Peters Street. 

Barnes, Mrs. M. 0 201 Peters Street. 

Camp, Homa 191 Chapel Street. 

Cape, W. W 244 W. Fair Street. 

Cape, Mrs. W. W 244 W. Fair Street. 

Cox, Clarence 33 Stonewall Street. 

Davis, D. S. A 549 Ashby Street. 

Davis, Mrs. Missouri 549 Ashby Street 

Davis, Jonah 549 Ashby Street. 

Davis, Codny 549 Ashby Street. 

Dodd, Asa M 215 W. Fair Street. 

Dodd, Mrs. Emma 215 W. Fair Street. 

Dodd, Charlie Mae 215 W. Fair Street. 

Dobbs, Julia T 234 Chapel Street. 



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Evans, G. W. . , 
Evans, Mrs. G. W. 



66 Walnut Street. 
66 Walnut Street. 



Filmore, W. A 10 W. Fair Street. 

Filmore, Mrs. W. A 10 W. Fair Street. 

Fechter, Mrs. Alice 2 Hill Street. 

Gill, G. N 33 Stonewall Street. 

Gill, Mrs. G. N 33 Stonewall Street. 

Gill, Miss Carrie 33 Stonewall Street. 

Gill, Miss Leah 33 Stonewall Street. 

Glover, Miss E. M 

Harrison, R. H 269 Peters Street. 

Harrison, Mrs. R. H 269 Peters Street. 

Humphries, W. F 127 Walker Street. 

Humphries, Miss Bulah 127 Walker Street. 

Hatcher, E. B 36 Tatnall Street. 

Hatcher, Mrs. E. B 36 Tatnall Street. 

Hatcher, Miss Eulalia 36 Tatnall Street. 

Hatcher, Warren 36 Tatnall Street, 

Harwell, John H W. Hunter Street. 

Hubert, Mrs. L. A 18 Bailey Street. 

Hancock, Miss Belle Formwalt Street. 

Ligon, Mrs. Ruth 20 Walnut Street. 

Little, Miss Lola 

LeRoy, Mrs. M. M Roswell, Ga. 

Lester, J. A Battle Hill, Ga. 

Lester, Mrs. J. A Batle Hill, Ga. 

Miller, R. B 

Mann, G. C 104 Greensferry Avenue. 

Mann, Miss Annie 104 Greensferry Avenue. 

McClung, Miss Emma 29 Larkin Street. 

McClung, Miss Jennie 29 Larkin Street. 

Miles, Mrs. Alice 16 Walnut Street. 

Miles, Miss Zuma 16 Walnut Street. 

Owens, E. S 11 Bailey Street. 

Owens, Mrs. Minnie 11 Bailey Street. 

Pittman, N. E 180 Chapel Street. 

Pittman, Mrs. Eunice 180 Chapel Street. 

Reese, Annie Mag 56 Larkin Street. 



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Strickland, E. J 46 Larkin Street. 

Strickland, Mrs. E. J 46 Larkin Street. 

Strickland, Miss Etta 46 Larkin Street. 

Stewart, Miss Ellen 181 Pryor Street 

Smith, J. N 29 Larkin Street. 

Smith, Mrs. J. E 190 Chapel Street. 

Smith, Aubry 190 Chapel Street 

Smith, J. C 100 W. Fair Street 

Smith, Mrs. J. C 100 W. Fair Street 

Summers, Brown 20 Walnut Street 

Summers, Miss Leona 20 Walnut Street. 

Summers, Miss Margaret 20 Walnut Street 

Whitington, B. L 65 Larkin Street. 

Whitington, Miss Rosa 65 Larkin Street. 

Walsh, Mrs. Emmie S. Pryor Street. 

Ward, Mrs. D. B 46 Larkin Street. 

Wooten, Miss Lula Birmingham, Ala. 

Willis, Miss Lula 79 Larkin Street. 

Willis, Leila 79 Larkin Street. 

Willis, Velma 79 Larkin Street. 

Wallace, Mrs. Mamie 

Walraven, Mrs. Annie 21 Hightower Street. 



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